Box Score

CAMBRIDGE, MA—The Harvard women's tennis team won its third straight match of the season sweeping visiting NJIT, 7-0, at the Murr Center Tennis Courts.
 
Harvard improves to 5-3 on the season while NJIT, which also entered the contest after winning its last two matches, falls to 8-4.
 
The closest match of the evening came at fifth singles featuring NJIT's Jana Luste and Harvard's Sylvia Li.  Li took the first set, 6-2, while Highlanders' Luste won by the identical score in the next frame but it was Li who came out on top earning the point for the Crimson with a 6-1 victory.
 
NJIT will break for Spring Break and return to action on March 19-20 when the Highlanders face Nebraska at Omaha and Kansas at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
 
Harvard 7 NJIT 0
 
Doubles
1. Tachibana/Norton (HU) def. Kuzmenko/Luste (NJIT) 8-0
2. He/Hannah Morrill (HU) vs. Graff/Tripcovici (NJIT) 7-7 DNF
3. Li/Lin (HU) def. Melibeu/Zanotta (NJIT) 8-6
 
Singles
1. Hideko Tachibana (HU) def. Ksenia Kuzmenko (NJIT) 6-1, 7-5
2. Amy He (HU) def. Monika Graff (NJIT) 6-3, 6-3
3. Kristin Norton (HU) def Martina Tripcovici (NJIT) 6-0, 6-2
4. Kong Hai-Li (HU) def. Natalia Melibeu (NJIT) 6-2, 7-5
5. Sylvia Li (HU) def. Jana Luste (NJIT) 6-2, 2-6, 6-1
6. Amanda Lin (HU) def. Carolina Zanotta (NJIT) 6-1, 6-0