Box Score BRUNSWICK, Maine – Sophomore Mandy Reyes (Barcelona, Spain/Laurel Springs School) captured the 'B' Singles flight at the 2024 Intercollegiate Tennis Association New England Regional Championships at Bowdoin College today.

Reyes, a 9-16 seed, earned a first-round bye and moved on to the Round of 16 with an 8-1 win over Olivia Gidlow of Bates. In the Round of 16, Reyes knocked off Shyla Khattar of host Bowdoin, who had defeated the top seed in her previous match, 6-3, 6-3. Reyes faced another Polar Bear player, Candace Ballarin, another 9-16 seed, in the quarterfinals, picking up a 7-6, 6-4 win to advance to the Sunday semifinals.

On Sunday, Reyes survived her third-straight Bowdoin player, topping fourth seeded Zoe Sun, 6-2, 5-7, 10-6, in a third-set super tiebreaker. Against Wesleyan's Macie Carlos, the second seed who had not lost a set and no more than two games in any of those, Reyes fell behind after losing the first set, 6-1. She bounced back with a 6-3 win in the second, then earned another super tiebreaker win, 10-5, to take home the hardware.

Also in B singles, Senior Cecilia Denis (Ardmore, Pa./Lower Merion) and sophomore Sanjana Kumar (Phoenix, Ariz./Sandra Day O'Connor) each won first-round matches before falling in the round of 32.

In the A draw, junior Rebecca Suarez (Huntington, N.Y./International Virtual Learning Academy) advanced to Day 2 in both singles and doubles.

In singles play, Suarez was a 9-16 seed, and won a pair of matches to reach the Round of 16. She opened with a marathon against Chloe Zeng of MIT, 7-5, 4-6, 10-3 in a third-set super tiebreaker. In the Round of 32, she advanced more easily, 6-3, 6-2, over Margaux Molyneux of Williams. She fell in the Round of 16 to Middlebury's Sahana Raman, the fifth seed, 6-2, 6-2. Raman went on to reach the tournament semifinals.

In doubles action, Suarez and senior Bhakti Parwani (Ahmadabad, India/Kumkum School) earned a first-round bye as the third seeds. They defeated Carlos and Alexandra Barnett of Wesleyan, 8-4, to reach Day 2 for the second year in a row. Last season, they reached the quarterfinals before Suarez withdrew due to injury. This year, they were upset by 9-16 seeds Claudia Miller and Elise Van Weiren of Middlebury, 8-4, as the Panther pair reached the semifinals.

Also in the main singles draw, junior Nancy Zhang (Shanghai, China/Shanghai International Division) won a first-round match, defeating Allie Francis of Trinity, 7-5, 6-0. She fell to Lane Durkin, a 9-16 from Wesleyan, 4-6, 3-6, in the second round. Parwani dropped a 0-6, 3-6 decision to Cody Huang of Amherst.

In the B doubles draw, Zhang and sophomore Reyes won a first-round match, 8-5, over a duo from Bates, but fell to a seeded team from Bowdoin, 1-8.

The Judges close out their fall season the weekend of Oct. 5-6 when they return to Brunswick for the Bowdoin Invitational.