WILKES-BARRE, Penn. (April 16, 2023) – After losing a New Jersey Athletic Conference match on Saturday against Stockton University, the Rutgers University-Camden women's tennis team bounced back strong to win a pair of non-conference matches Sunday at King's College.
 
The Scarlet Raptors defeated Elizabethtown College, 6-3, before outlasting host King's College, 5-4.
 
The sweep lifts the Scarlet Raptors to 5-8 during the 2022-23 scholastic year.
 
Rutgers-Camden returns to action Wednesday with a New Jersey Athletic Conference match at William Paterson University.
   
The Scarlet Raptors won the top two doubles matches and their first four singles matches on the way to defeating the Blue Jays.
 
At the top doubles spot, junior Sarah Ahrens and senior Laurel DiStefano combined for an 8-1 victory, while the Raptors posted an 8-2 win at second doubles behind junior Samantha Hoban and freshman Katie Moore. Elizabethtown posted a narrow 8-6 win at third doubles over freshman Ashton Sirko and junior Alyna Cabrera.
 
Ahrens won at first singles (6-0, 6-0), Hoban captured her second singles match (6-4, 6-2), Moore won at the third flight (6-2, 6-4) and DiStefano captured her fourth singles match (6-2, 6-0). Sirko lost at fifth singles (6-3, 6-3) and senior Lindsay Hernandez was defeated at sixth singles (6-0, 6-3).
   
Ahrens swept her first singles match, 6-0, 6-0, and combined with DiStefano for an 8-2 win at first doubles to help Rutgers-Camden win its second match of the day.
 
The Scarlet Raptors also won at second doubles, 8-2, behind the combination of Hoban and Moore, while Hernandez and Cabrera dropped a close 8-6 match at third doubles.
 
DiStefano won at fourth singles, 6-1, 6-0, and Moore's 6-3, 6-1 victory at third singles proved to be the match-clinching victory. Hoban dropped a 6-2, 6-2 decision at second singles, Sirko lost, 6-4, 6-1, at fifth singles and Hernandez lost at sixth singles, 8-5.