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Archer Advances to Final at Navy Invitational

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – St. Bonaventure women's tennis player Riley Archer will compete for the Flight D consolation singles championship when Navy's Bill & Sandra Moore Invitational wraps up on Sunday.

Archer (pictured) collected an 8-1 victory over Manhattan's Ava Leischen and an 8-3 triumph over Leischen's teammate, Ava Maffei, on Saturday to advance. The senior will meet Navy's Kristy Yau in the final at the Tose Family Tennis Center at the Brigade Sports Complex.

Marissa Brossard was the lone Bonnies' player to pick up a victory in championship flight action at the 10-team tournament. The sophomore topped Towson's Nani Lizana 8-4 in the Flight A first round only to fall to Howard's Katelyn Stokes 6-0, 6-2 in a quarterfinal match.

Fatya Amiri, Kathryn Kvas and Taylor Cole each picked up consolation flight wins for the Bonnies in their season-opening tournament.

Amiri topped Geogre Mason's Kiersten Pappas 8-5 in Flight A consolation play, but the sophomore fell 8-0 to eventual flight champion Alexandra Johannson of Nova Southeastern in the semifinal round.

Making her collegiate debut, Cole defeated George Mason's Andrea Londen 6-4 after Londen retired. However, Cole was ousted by Nova Southeastern's Iryna Serdyuk in the consolation semifinal round.

Kvas, a senior, downed Monmouth's Ashley Sandler only to bow to Seton Hall's Alex Landert 8-4 in the consolation quarterfinal round.

The SBU doubles teams of Brossard and Amiri, and Kvas and Cole failed to advance in Friday's first round Flight A and Flight B action, respectively.

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