Feb. 25, 2006

Box Score

TENAFLY, NJ - Visiting Seton Hall scored its third straight 7-0 win of 2006, defeating New Jersey Institute of Technology in women's tennis action Saturday night at the Tenafly Racquet Club.

NJIT, 8-4 overall in 2005-06, has sustained three of its four losses against NCAA Division I opponents, including Seton Hall.

The Highlanders, who were ranked 7th in the Northeast Region of Division II in the fall by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, are reclassifying and will face a Division I schedule next year. This year, they are facing a schedule of mostly Division II opponents, with some Division I foes mixed in.

Seton Hall is 5-4 overall in 2005-06 and 3-0, with the three 7-0 wins, in the 2006 portion of its schedule.

On Saturday, Seton Hall won all six singles matches, as well as taking the three doubles matches. In singles, NJIT's number one player, Iulia Doci, took the first set, 6-2, before losing the match, 6-7 (4-10) to Seton Hall's Viviana Figueroa.

In third singles, Deepti Sanjai of the Highlanders lost the first set, 1-6, but rallied to take the second set, 6-4, before losing the tie-breaker (5-10) to Nadja Sein.

NJIT's second singles player, Fatima Kasem, built a 5-4 lead in the first set, but the Pirates' Sylvia Jaros rallied to take the set, 7-5 and then won the match with a 6-1 second set.

The closest doubles match was at first doubles, where Figueroa and Sein topped Doci and Chiori Koike, 8-3.

The Highlanders will meet another Division I opponent, FDU-Teaneck, on Sunday night at the Tenafly Racquet Club.