Box Score FOREST GROVE, Ore.—Lewis & Clark College women's tennis senior
Hayley Kreps earned a three-set victory at fifth singles, but the Pioneers fell 6-1 to host Pacific University in their 2025 Northwest Conference opener.
THE BASICS
Pacific 6, Lewis & Clark 1
(Lewis & Clark 1-4, NWC 0-1)
(Pacific 2-0, NWC 2-0)
HOW IT HAPPENED
Two Pioneers made their collegiate conference debuts and seven players appeared in their first conference match of the season on Sunday morning.
Kreps denied Pacific a perfect 14-0 weekend with a back-and-forth win at fifth singles. The junior dropped the first set 7-5 to Valentina Casab-Klescova. She came back to win the second set 6-2 and won the super tiebreaker 10-3 in the third set.
Pacific opened the match by winning all three doubles matches.
Mia Yamaguchi and Tiara Yeung captured a 6-0 win at third doubles over senior
Kacie Lau and Kreps. Cassidy Binder and Stella Nishimura combined for a 6-1 win over junior
Susanna Anand and sophomore
Maya Curry.
Number two doubles proved to be the closest match. Sophomore
Charlotte Makoni and first year
Taylor Stadjuhar fell 6-3 to Sofia Mazzola and Chloe Takahashi.
Binder made it 2-0 in favor of the Boxers when she defeated Anand 6-3, 6-1 at first doubles in a rematch of the Fall ITA Championship Match.
Takahashi added a 6-3, 6-3 win over Makoni at third singles to make it 3-0.
The hosts clinched the match win with a back-and-forth, three-setter at second singles. Nishimura took the first set 6-2, but Curry roared back with a 7-5 win to push the match to three sets. Nishimura took the win 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 to make it 4-0 Boxers.
Sofia Mazzola defeated Stadjuhar 6-2, 6-0 at fourth singles.
In the final match of the day, Yamaguchi defeated senior
Lauren Smith-Euben 6-2, 6-3 at sixth singles.
BY THE NUMBERS
- Curry and Stadjuhar each made their collegiate NWC debuts on Sunday.
- Smith-Euben played in her first NWC match since March 11, 2023.
- Kreps improved to a team-best 7-3 in singles action and 4-1 in dual matches. Her seven singles wins in a season are tied for her career-high (7 in 2022 and 2024).
WHO'S NEXT
Lewis & Clark will host Linfield University on Saturday at 11 a.m. in their first home match of the 2024-25 season.
