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2025 WTEN LL Champs
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Winner Vassar VAS (14-5)
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Skidmore SKD (10-10)
Winner
Vassar VAS
(14-5)
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Final
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Skidmore SKD
(10-10)

Match Recap: Women's Tennis |

Vassar Knocks Off Top-Seeded Skidmore, Claims First Liberty League Title Since 2010

Li named Most Outstanding Performer

Ithaca, NY – The Vassar College Women's Tennis team posted a 4-1 victory over top-seeded Skidmore Sunday morning to win the program's first Liberty League crown since 2010. The title is Vassar's ninth overall and stops a 13-year run of championships for Skidmore. Junior Iris Li (Palo Alto, CA) clinched the victory in a third set tie breaker on her way to being named the event's Most Outstanding Performer.
 
Sunday's win is Vassar's sixth straight and improves the Brewers to 14-5 overall. Skidmore falls to 10-10.
 
Doubles
  • Skidmore got off to a quick start, claiming the doubles point with victories at the first and second positions.
  • Vassar's third pair of Maddie Kirby (Davidson, NC) and Elyse Duley (Charlotte, NC) improved to 10-3 on the season following a 6-0 blanking of their opponents at the third position.
 
Singles
  • The Brewers rallied to sweep all four singles matches that completed.
  • Li outlasted Skidmore's Grace Truong in a third set tie breaker to clinch the title for the Brewers. Li scored a 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-2) victory for the Brewers, moving to 14-2 on the season and in the process earning Most Outstanding Performer honors.
  • Macey Dowd (Orinda, CA) evened the match at 1-1 with a convincing 6-3, 6-3 win at the third position, moving her singles record to 11-6 on the season.
  • Ananya Krishnan (Chesterbrook, PA) moved Vassar in front 2-1 with an impressive 6-0, 6-3 fifth singles win, her ninth triumph of the season in 12 decisions.
  • Kirby brought the Brewers to within a match of the title with a 6-4, 6-3 sixth singles victory for Vassar.
  • Li followed at second singles to close out the match.
 
What's Next
  • Vassar will learn its First Round opponent in the NCAA Tournament on Monday at 12:00 p.m.
 
Doubles
Dhull/Truong (SC) def. Erin McCusker/Sofie Shen (VC), 6-1
Provost/Sarzynska (SC) def. Iris Li/Macey Dowd (VC), 6-4
Maddie Kirby/Elyse Duley (VC) def. Geiss/Prokop (SC), 6-0
 
Singles
Erin McCusker (VC) vs. Dhull (SC), 6-7 (5-7), 3-2, unfinished
Iris Li (VC) def. Truong (SC), 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-2)
Macey Dowd (VC) def. Provost (SC), 6-3, 6-3
Sieun Lee (VC) led Geiss (SC), 6-4, 2-6, 4-0, unfinished
Ananya Krishnan (VC) def. Sarzynska (SC), 6-0, 6-3
Maddie Kirby (VC) def. Prokop (SC), 6-4, 6-3
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