Roxana Soica won both her doubles and singles matches as the Varsity Blues women’s tennis team fell 5-2 to the Western Mustangs on Saturday, October 2 at Scarborough Campus.

Soica of Toronto teamed up with Dominic Karas (Halifax) to take the number one doubles match 8-7. Unforunately, Western’s number two and three doubles teams got past Toronto to earn the lone doubles point*.

Soica then won her number three match 6-2, 6-2 versus Western’s Chantal Foristal. Whitby, Ont., native Cecilia Pye accounted for the Blues other win of the day, coming from behind to defeat Carolyn Agabriel 0-6, 6-2, 7-5.

The Varsity Blues return to the court tomorrow when they travel to Oshawa, Ont., to take on the UOIT Ridgebacks. Matches are scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m.

*Scoring: Score 1 point per match win for singles and 1 point for the team winning 2 or 3 doubles matches, for a total of 7 points

RESULTS
Doubles
Toronto #1 (Dominic Karas, Roxana Soica) defeats Western #1 8-7
Toronto #2 (Aisha Bhimla, Cecilia Pye) loses to Western #2 8-4
Toronto #3 (Daria Zakharchenko, Jocelyn Luk) loses to Western #3 DEF
(Western earns one doubles point by way of their 2-1 record)

Singles
Toronto #1 (Karas) loses to Western #1 6-2, 6-0
Toronto #2 (Zakharchenko) loses to Western #2 6-2, ret
Toronto #3 (Soica) defeats Western #3 6-2, 6-2
Toronto #4 (Pye) defeats Western #4 0-6, 6-2, 7-5
Toronto #5 (Bhimla) loses to Western #5 7-6, 7-6
Toronto #6 (Luk) loses to Western #6 5-7, 7-5, 6-2

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