THE BASICS: 
 
- Scores: No. 12 MIT 8, No. 30 Hamilton 1 
 
- Records: MIT (3-2), Hamilton (1-1)  
 
- Location: Cambridge, Mass. (J.B. Carr Tennis Bubble) 
 
- The Lead: The No. 12 MIT women's tennis team earned an 8-1 victory over No. 30 Hamilton College on Saturday morning at the J.B. Carr Tennis Bubble. 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED: 
 
- MIT won two of three doubles matches with the first victory of the day coming first-years Saina Deshpande (Pune, India) and Anastasia Samets (Ocean, N.J.) as they took No. 3 doubles, 8-2, over Priyanka Challapalli and Shannon Cicero. Sophomores Alaina Kolli (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) and Artemis Pados (Delray Beach, Fla.) followed with an 8-3 victory against Ally Turtledove and Grace Qian in the No. 2 spot. Hannah Aspey and Stephanie Pratt produced the lone point for the Continentals as they outlasted senior Kimberly Liao (Commack, N.Y.) and junior Jay Lu (Austin, Texas), 8-6. 
 
- The Engineers did not lose any of their six single matches.  
 
- Lu and Deshpande both earned 6-1, 6-2 wins against Challapalli and Qian in the No. 2 and 4 positions, respectively. Kolli clinched the match with a 6-4, 6-4 win in the No. 3 slot after being down 1-4 in the second set and coming back to win five games in a row. First-year Katya Shepherd Johnson (Takoma Park, Md.) battled Apsey for a 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 win in the top spot while first-year Nishi Gandra (Mason, Ohio) wrapped up the day in the No. 6 position with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Samantha Rainero.  
 
UP NEXT: 
 
- The Engineers are back in action on Friday, March 22 when they kick off NEWMAC action against Emerson College at 3:00 p.m. 
 
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