Farmingdale State 5, Purchase 2
PURCHASE, N.Y. | The Farmingdale State College women's tennis team captured its fourth-consecutive victory on Wednesday afternoon, as the Rams earned an important 5-2, Skyline Conference win at SUNY Purchase.
With the win, the Rams (9-6, 5-1 Skyline) enter Saturday's noontime Senior Day match against St. Joseph's-Long Island with an opportunity to secure the No. 2 seed in next week's 2026 Skyline Conference Women's Tennis Championship if they defeat the Golden Eagles.
FSC earned a pair of wins in doubles competition to move ahead of the Panthers (7-3, 4-2), with the top-flight pairing of seniors
Natalia Furchel (Manorville, N.Y.) and
Gabriella Loria (Levittown, N.Y.) moving past Ameila Perlmutter and Alyssa Muschenick, 6-1, before the visitors' No. 3 team of freshman
Ana Hernandez (Valley Stream, N.Y.) and sophomore
Marybeth Zimos (Hicksville, N.Y.) turned aside Emma Van Dorpe and Stella Kahnis, 6-2.
Loria's 6-1, 6-3 victory in her No. 3 singles match over Van Dorpe doubled Farmingdale State's lead, before freshman
Emma Johannsen (Verplanck, N.Y.) staked her side to a 3-0 edge with a straight-sets victory in the fifth flight against Sadie Killebrew, 6-3 and 6-2. After the Panthers secured wins in the sixth and second slots, Furchel clinched the match for the Rams when she defeated Perlmutter at No. 1 by identical 6-4 scores.
