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ST. BONAVENTURE, NY - The University at Buffalo's women's tennis team competed at the St. Bonaventure Women's Tennis Fall Classic over the weekend with mixed results. There was no team scoring in the tournament which featured teams from Fordham, Colgate and Niagara as well as the Bulls and host St. Bonaventure.

UB freshman Kristen Ortman (Amherst, NY/Amherst) opened the tournament with a pair of victories to move into the finals on Sunday. Ortman, playing at number two for the Bulls, downed Fordham's Christina Papa in Friday's opener, 6-7, 6-4, 11-9, and breezed past Colgate's Lindsey Suffredini, 6-2, 6-1 on Saturday. Ortman's run ended on Sunday with a tough three-set loss to Niagara's Mariam Al-Shikarchy, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.

Although Ortman dropped her final match on Sunday, UB netted four singles victories in the final day of competition, with three coming against opponents from St. Bonaventure. Karen Maynard (Poughkeepsie, NY/Spackenkill) defeated the Bonnies' Natalie Rumpel, 6-2, 6-2. Helen Lynch (Hobart, Tasmania/St. Michael's Collegiate) sailed past Kasey Mutzel of St. Bonaventure, 6-0, 6-1. Lisa Wittman (Cheektowaga, NY/Cheektowaga) downed St. Bonaventure's Erin Sullivan, 6-1, 6-3 and Michaela Kollarova (Bratislava, Slovak Republic/Sport Gymnasium) knocked off Niagara's Danielle Greiner, 8-2.

UB's doubles squads were also in action in the three-day tournament. Kollarova and Lynch combined to defeat Colleen Carey and Kendra Daigler of Niagara, 8-4, on Sunday with Maynard and Ortman downing Xer-Li Woo and Danielle Spigner of Fordham, 8-4, on Saturday.

The Bulls host local rival Canisius on Saturday, Oct. 5 at the UB Tennis Center for a 10:00 am match in their next action.