First-year Kimberly Nguyen picked up her first collegiate singles win on Sunday afternoon. Photo by Matt Dilyard.

The College of Wooster women's tennis team started strong, taking two of the three doubles points, yet Allegheny College rallied with a strong showing in singles to turn away the Fighting Scots 6-3 on Sunday afternoon at the Tennis Courts at Robertson in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Senior Sarah Duran and junior Emma Saxton put the Scots (0-6, 0-4 North Coast Athletic Conference East Division) on the board and tied the match at one with an 8-5 decision over Allegheny's (2-1, 2-0 NCAC East Division) Katherine Stancil and Allison Riley in the third flight. At No. 2, senior Laura Haley and first-year Kimberly Nguyen won 8-5 over Ella Swan and Jean-Arlette Legrand, and that point gave Wooster a 2-1 edge heading into singles.

Nguyen scored the Scots' point in singles, turning away Legrand 6-1, 5-7, 1-0 (7) at No. 4 for her first collegiate singles win.

At No. 1, first-year Otilia Oita took set two off Katherine Marks in a tiebreaker, while the Gators' anchor won the third-set tiebreaker to take the match 6-4, 6-7 (6), 1-0 (5). Duran and senior Kendra Devereux won four games in second set the second and sixth flights, respectively. Gaby DeLeon topped Duran 6-1, 6-4, while Noelle Kidd held off Devereux's strong finish to win 6-1, 6-4.

Swan topped Haley 6-1, 6-2 at No. 3, with Stancil winning versus Saxton 6-2, 6-0 at No. 5. Oita and sophomore Abby Kushner Benson fell 8-2 at No. 1 doubles.

Next, Wooster's at Kenyon College (1-0, 1-0 NCAC East Division) for a noon contest on Saturday, April 17.