ANNAPOLIS, Md. – St. Bonaventure women's tennis player Riley Archer wrapped up Navy's Bill & Sandra Moore Invitational by winning the Flight D Consolation singles championship on Sunday.
Archer (pictured) topped Navy's Kristy Yau 8-5 in the final at the Tose Family Tennis Center at the Brigade Sports Complex. After falling in the first round of championship flight action, the Bonnies' senior rebounded in the consolation bracket with an 8-1 victory over Manhattan's Ava Leischen and an 8-3 triumph over Leischen's teammate, Ava Maffei, on Saturday to advance to the title match.
Archer's three victories in St. Bonaventure's season-opening tournament are already one more than she collected all of last year as a junior.
Marissa Brossard was the lone Bonnies' player to pick up a victory in championship flight action at the three-day, 10-team tournament. The sophomore topped Towson's Nani Lizana 8-4 in Flight A first round action on Saturday only to fall to Howard's Katelyn Stokes 6-0, 6-2 in a quarterfinal match.
Also on Saturday, St. Bonaventure's Fatya Amiri, Kathryn Kvas and Taylor Cole each picked up consolation flight wins after losing their first matches in championship flight competition.
Amiri topped Geogre Mason's Kiersten Pappas 8-5 in Flight A consolation play, but the sophomore fell 8-0 to eventual 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.