From now until the end of the calendar year, the Vassar Athletic Department is counting down the Brewers' top 10 moments of 2018 across all sports.  The ninth-best moment is from Sept. 24, when Frances Cornwall and Tara Edwards of the women's tennis team played in the doubles final at the ITA Northeast Regional Championships.  They won four matches over the first two days of the event to reach the final before dropping a tight three-set decision to a team from NYU.

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GENEVA, NY (Sept. 24, 2018) – Third-seeded Frances Cornwall (Poway, CA) and Tara Edwards (Littleton, CO) of the Vassar College women's tennis team played for the doubles title at the Intercollegiate Tennis Associaton (ITA) Northeast Regional Championships on Monday.  In a tight three-set affair, Cornwall and Edwards dropped a 3-6, 6-1, 7-5 decision to NYU's Coco Kulle and Flyora Shiyanova, the No. 4 seeds.
 
After Cornwall and Edwards took the first set by a 6-3 count, Kulle and Shiyanova won the second set 6-1.  The NYU tandem then got an early break in the third set to go up 2-0 before Cornwall and Edwards broke back for 2-2.  NYU regained the break advantage at 5-3, but the Vassar duo once again responded to even the score at 5-5.  However, Kulle and Shiyanova held serve to go up 6-5, then broke again in the final game to clinch their second straight ITA Northeast Regional title.

Cornwall and Edwards' runner-up performance marks Vassar's best showing at the ITA Regionals since Ava Sadeghi and Samantha Schapiro also reached the doubles final in 2014.  Kate Christensen won the singles championship that year, as well.  Sadeghi and Schapiro were the ITA Northeast Regional doubles champions in 2012.
 
The duo was chosen as the Liberty League Doubles Team of the Week for their run.