ROME, Ga. – Lewis & Clark College tennis will send three players to the ITA Cup Small College Championships, marking the program's first appearance since 2016. First-year
Sonya Drayton is the third woman in program history to advance to the championships and the first since Wiktoria Plawska in 2016. Senior
Noah Sutin and sophomore
Kaden Sigurdsson are the first men in program history to compete at the championships.
LOCATION
All matches will be played at the Rome Tennis Center on the campus of Berry College in Rome, Georgia.
FOLLOW LIVE
Video and live stats will be provided. Live stats can be found
here. Video links will be added to
golcathletics.com when they are available. Due to a recent hurricane in Georgia, not all courts will have live streams.
SCHEDULE
The following schedules will be updated with results and updated matchups at the end of each day of competition.
WOMEN'S SINGLES
Thursday
9 am PT / Noon ET – #2 Sophie Lau (Pomona-Pitzer) def.
Sonya Drayton, 6-4, 6-0
Friday
9 am PT / Noon ET –
Sonya Drayton vs. Holyn Karp (Emory University)
Saturday
TBA
MEN'S DOUBLES
Thursday
3 pm PT / 6 pm ET – Juno Pethe/Mitchell Deames (Emory University) def.
Kaden Sigurdsson/
Noah Sutin, 6-4, 6-2
Friday
3 pm PT / 6 pm ET -
Kaden Sigurdsson/
Noah Sutin vs. Kristian Sharma/Henry Wilson (Claremont-Mudd-Scripps)
Saturday
TBA
ITA REGIONALS RECAP
Drayton defeated Whitman College's Renata Rosell Puga 6-4, 6-1 in the singles final. She dropped only 13 games across five matches and won each in straight sets.
The West Linn, Oregon, native defeated Willamette University's Eva Lief 6-0, 6-0 in the first round, then beat Whitman's Gloria Lau 6-0, 6-2 in the round of 16. Drayton earned a 6-0, 6-1 win over George Fox University's Shanah Denham in the quarterfinals and advanced to the final with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Whitman's Emerson Bonner.
Sigurdsson and Sutin rallied to defeat Whitman's third-seeded Hassan Ammar and Niklas Nordahl Jensen in the doubles final. After losing the first set 7-5, they won the second 7-6 (8-6) and took the deciding 10-point tiebreaker 10-8. The title earned them ITA All-America honors and a berth in the ITA Cup.
The fourth-seeded River Otters opened with an 8-7 (1) win over a Linfield University pair in the round of 32. They defeated a George Fox pair 8-5 in the round of 16, then beat Whitman's sixth-seeded Hanri Luo and Henry Kaufman 8-2 in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, they defeated Whitworth University's Matthew Froslan and Ryan Ashley 8-1.
HISTORY AT ITA CUP
In 2015, first-year Summer Garrison competed in the USTA/ITA National Small College Championships in Sumter, South Carolina. Seeded fourth, Garrison went 2-2 over four days and finished seventh.
In 2016, Northwest Regional champion Wiktoria Plawska competed in a play-in match, losing in straight sets to a player from the University of Texas at Dallas.
