EWING, N.J. (April 24, 2024) – The Rutgers University-Camden women's tennis team has qualified for the New Jersey Athletic Conference championships every year since the playoff format was introduced in 2021.
 
Unfortunately, for the last three years, the Scarlet Raptors, as the fourth seed, have had to play at top-seeded powerhouse The College of New Jersey, and the results were the same here Wednesday.
 
Needing only five wins to clinch the best-of-nine post-season victory, the Lions swept all three doubles matches and won a pair of singles matches to take a 5-0 victory. They will host the NJAC championship match on Saturday at 12 p.m. as they try to extend a streak of consecutive conference titles that stretches back to 1982.
 
It marked the third straight year that Rutgers-Camden has dropped a 5-0 NJAC semifinal decision against TCNJ. It ended the Scarlet Raptors' season with an overall mark of 8-9.
 
The Lions improved to 15-2.
 
The Lions won all three doubles matches by 8-0 scores. Sophomore co-captains Katie Moore and Ashton Sirko played first doubles for the Scarlet Raptors, while junior Jayde Sue Silva and freshman Bella Martinez combined at second doubles. The Scarlet Raptors' third doubles team consisted of freshman Alyssa Peacock and sophomore Jackie Zuniga Arevalo.
 
The two singles matches that were finished, accounting for the final score, came at the fourth and fifth spots, where both Peacock and Martinez lost, 6-0, 6-0, respectively.
 
In the unfinished singles matches, Moore was trailing, 6-0, 2-0, at first singles and Silva was behind, 6-0, 5-0 at the second flight. Sirko trailed, 6-0, 3-0 at third singles and Zuniga Arevalo was behind in the sixth spot, 6-0, 2-0.