MONROEVILLE, Pa. (April 3, 2015) – The Saint Francis U women's tennis team closed out its home schedule with a tough fought match against Dayton and fell, 5-2, on Friday afternoon.

"This is probably the best Dayton women's team I have seen, so I was pleased with how our women played and competed against them today," said SFU head coach Rob Castille.

Shivani Patel (Leicestershire, England/Repton School) won at No. 2 singles quite handily for the Red Flash, 6-0, 6-1. Lucy Jasso (San Luis Potosi, Mexico/Instituto Potosino) picked up the other singles point for SFU at No. 6 as she won 7-5, 7-5.
The lone doubles point for SFU came at No. 1 as Patel and Rafaela Panizza (Jundiai, Brazil) won 6-3.

"We were in most of the matches and had our opportunities. I think we let the doubles point slip away, which was disappointing, but the women put that behind them and came out firing in singles. We'll tweak a few things for next weekend, but I definitely like the way we are playing at the moment," Castille continued.

Saint Francis hits the road to close out the regular season against Morgan State and Howard next weekend.

Dayton (8-7) def. Saint Francis U (5-9), 5-2

Doubles
1. PATEL, Shivani/PANIZZA, Rafaela (SFU) def. Bridgham/Marchant (Dayton), 6-3
2. Townsend/Jackie Kawanats (Dayton) def. SACHS, Alex/GRYCKIEWICZ, Dani (SFU), 6-3
3. Peck/Shepard (Dayton) def. JENTZ, Brittini/JASSO, LUCY (SFU), 6-4
Order of finish: 3, 1, 2

Singles
1. Bridgham (Dayton) def. PANIZZA, Rafaela (SFU), 2-6, 6-3, 6-4
2. PATEL, Shivani (SFU) def. Townsend (Dayton), 6-0, 6-1
3. Jackie, Kawanats (Dayton) def. SACHS, Alex (SFU), 6-2, 6-1
4. Peck (Dayton) def. JENTZ, Brittini (SFU), 6-2, 6-2
5. Kawanats, Jade (Dayton) def. GRYCKIEWICZ (SFU), 6-0, 6-7, 10-3
6. JASSO, Lucy (SFU) def. Marchant (Dayton), 7-5, 7-5
Order of finish: 3, 2, 1, 4*, 5, 6