To get to that point UMBC topped Albany after taking the doubles point and winning No. 3, No. 4, and No. 6 singles.

Emily Mannix and Kim Berghaus blanked their doubles opponent, 8-0 before Heidi Danielsson and Josefin Stange-Jonsson beat their opponents, 8-1, to clinch the doubles point.

At No. 3 singles Julia Gragera-Cano blanked her opponent, 6-0, 6-0 before Danielsson won her match at No. 4 singles, 6-2, 6-1 and Stange-Jonsson beat her singles opponent 6-0, 6-2 at No. 6 singles.

In the semifinals Berghaus and Mannix fell in doubles, 8-5 and Danielsson and Stange-Jonsson lost, 8-4. Berghaus also lost her singles match but put up a fight in the first set, losing 7-6 (3), 6-0 while Gragera-Cano lost, 6-3, 6-0, and Danielsson lost 6-2, 6-2.

Freshman Kim Berghaus has done tremendous as the top singles player for the women's tennis team.

Junior transfer Rasid Winlaar joined the men’s tennis team late, but he’s been dominate ever since he stepped onto the court. Winklaar cruised to victories in both his singles match and doubles match as the men’s tennis team trumped Florida – Gulf Coast, 5-2.

Since getting into a groove with his game after not playing in so long, Winklaar has moved as high as the No. 2 singles spot on the team and with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Steve Binninger he is giving a strong case to move up even more.

Winklaar also teamed up with Adam Duprat, who lost his single match in three sets, 7-6, 4-6, 6-2, to beat Binninger and Frank Acierno, 8-3.

But UMBC’s top single player, Cristian Hodel, another newcomer to the team by way of transfer from national power Boise State, has also been coming on strong since joining the team. Hodel was taken to the brink by Matthew Rock as after winning a close first set, 7-6, he was beaten 6-3 in the second set. But the third set was all Hodel as he won the match with a 6-2 set victory.

Sophomore Gaulthier Berret improved to a team-best 9-1 record in single competition with a dominating 6-0, 6-2 victory over Collin Brown while Mwali Phiri topped Mitchell Lvovsky, 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 in No. 6 singles.

Joseph Adewumi lost a close three-set match, 6-4, 2-6, 7-6, to Carlo Checchia in No. 3 singles.

Adewumi did however team up with Phiri to beat Checcia and Dean Tsamas, 9-8, to clinch the doubles point with Winklaar and Duprat winning as well. Hodel and Berret lost a close match, 8-7, to Rock and Brown.

The women’s team lost a close match to Florida – Gulf Coast, 4-3.

UMBC was swept in double competition, which proved to be the match-deciding point as they split the singles matches.

Kim Berghaus topped Morgan Bechtel in No. 1 singles, 6-4, 6-1, while Julia Gragera-Cano won No. 3 singles over Bettina Botha, 6-3, 7-6. Emily Mannix impressively won a three-set match over Bibiana Almeida in No. 5 singles. After winning a close first set, 7-6, Mannix was blown out in the second set, 6-1. But she won a super tie breaker in the third set, 10-6 for the match victory.

Carmen Jackman, Heidi Danielsson, and Josefin Stange-Jonsson all lost their matches.

Julia Gragera-Cano and Kyri Hadji and Danielsson and Stange-Jonsson shutout their doubles opponents, 8-0 while Berghaus and Mannix took am 8-3 doubles win.

UMBC earned a doubles points after Carmen Jackman and Julia Gragera-Cano defeated Mirna Matic and Ivana Tomaic, 8-3, in No. 1 doubles and Emily Mannix and Kyri Hadji defeated Petra Dajevic and Emerald Lauzon, 8-4. UMBC completed the doubles sweep, however, with a 8-5 victory from Heidi Danielsson and Kim Berghaus over Mia Drobnjak and Sara Tegner.

Jackman beat Dajevic in No. 1 singled (7-5, 6-3), while Kim Berghaus stormed back to beat Drobnjak (2-6, 6-0, 6-1). Gragera-Cano won No. 3 singles over Tomaic (6-2, 6-1) and Danielsson completely swept Tegner in No. 4 singles (6-0, 6-0). Mannix topped Matic (6-1, 6-1), and Josefin Stange-Jonsson topped Lauzon in three sets (3-6, 6-4, 6-3).

Hours after sweeping Radford the team was swept by Virginia tech.

Gaulthier Berret was one of four Retrievers to win in three sets for a comeback win over Old Dominion

After dropping all three doubles matches and No. 1 and 3 singles, both in two sets, The Retrievers were pinned against a wall, trailing 3-0 to Old Dominion, one most loss away from their second team loss of the season. But instead UMBC rallied back with four three-set victories, giving them their third-straight victory, improving their record to 5-1.

Joe Adewumi fell behind after a 7-5 loss to Benjamin Chomette in his matches’ first set but won the next two, 7-6, 6-2 for his fifth singles win of the season. Following his victory Adam Duprat beat Albert Ochagavia, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 for a win at No. 4 singles, while Gaulthier Berrett beat Fahoum Fahoum, 7-6, 5-7, 6-4, and Mwali Phiri rallied back for a 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 victory over Alfredo Rodriguez.

The women’s tennis team lost for only their second time this season, falling to Old Dominion, 5-2.

Carmen Jackman and Julia Gragera-Cano won their No. 1 doubles match while Emily Mannix and Kyri Hadji won their No. 2 doubles match, 8-6, clinching a key match point. However, the team didn’t have quite as much success in their singled competition with their only win coming from Hadji, who won in two sets, 7-5, 6-1.

They started the day off by getting a crucial point in doubles competition. Without a third doubles team neither duo could afford a loss and neither team was close to won. Senior Carmen Jackman and freshman Julia Grugera-Cano teamed up for an 8-3 victory over Amanda Griffin and Erin Snook while senior Emily Mannix and freshman Kim Berghaus got an 8-4 victory over the Navy duo of Stefanie Ton and Darien Sears.

Things got off to a rocky start in singles competition as freshman Josefin Strange-Jonsson struggles in her first ever collegiate tennis match, losing 6-0, 6-1 in No. 5 singles but the team quickly made up for it with victories in No. 1, 2, and 3 singles.

Jackman topped Griffin in singles, 6-4, 6-4 and Berghaus beat Emani Decquir, 6-4, 6-1. Gregara-Cano then clinched a win in the match with a victory over Ton, 6-2, 6-4.

Mannix lost a close two set match in No. 4 singles, falling to Sears, 7-6 (4), 6-3.

After a 7-7 record just a season ago the women’s tennis team more than doubled their win total, finishing the season 15-8 in Paul Hubbard’s second season as coach. But after defeating University at Albany in the opening round game the Retrievers could not keep things going as they were bumped from the America East Conference Tournament by top-seeded Binghamton University, 4-2.

After Alice Chen and Heidi Danielsson won the teams first doubles match the second two matches went BU, giving them they doubles point.

UMBC finally got a match point when freshman Lorena Valente won her match (6-1, 6-3). Danielsson got UMBC the second match point when she got 6-3, 7-6(4), win at No. 5 singles.

After capturing their fourth point, and the win, the match was ended with three more UMBC players leading their matches.

The won the doubles point after Carmen Jackman and Emily Mannix won their match, 8-4 and Lorena Valente and Barbara Couto won theirs 8-3. Alice Chen and Heidi Danielsson were leading their match, 7-3, but the match was ended after winning the doubles point.

In singles competition Valente shut out Lanie Mackey (6-0, 6-0). Chen got past Livia Cherman with ease (6-1, 6-0) and Jackman beat Susan Ma (6-2, 6-2).

UMBC was leading their other three matches but after the match victory their matches was ended.

The women’s team, which finished the season 14-7 led by Alice Chen (15-6) and Barbara Couto (16-6 singles, 17-3 doubles) will be the fourth seed in the 2010 AEC Tournament and will play fifth seeds University at Albany at 10:00 am on April 30 in the quarterfinals of the tournament.

The last time the two teams met UMBC blanked Albany, 7-0, at UMBC Tennis Complex.

If UMBC were to beat UAlbany for a second time they would play top seeded Binghamton University in the semifinals, who beat UMBC 5-2, with all matches closely contested.

The men’s team however has clinched the number three seed in the tournament after boasting a 16-5 record. Joseph Adewumi led the team with an 18-5 record while Fredi Voorman and Adam Duprat each had 17.

They will face second seeded Stony Brook University on May 1 at 10:00 am in New Haven, Conn. The Retrievers dropped a 4-2 match to the Seawolves but had many close matches against them.

The men’s team will be attempting to reclaim the title that they won in 2007.

After Lorena Valente and Barbaro Couto tore through their doubles match against Amanda Halstrom and Kristen Mueller, 8-1, the first two teams were taken into extra games in theirs.

Both the team’s of Alice Chen and Heidi Danielsson, and Carmen Jackman and Emily Mannix had the lead in their matched but ended up losing in one extra game, 9-7 as the women’s team lost the doubles point.

But the team did not stop lay down in doubles competition.

Despite Jackman losing to Elena Berry, 6-3, 7-6 and Mannix losing to Samantha Carnall, 6-4, 6-2. the team was able to get four singles victories to win the match.

Chen was able to get her victory over Megan Doran out of the one position, 6-3, 6-4, Lorena Valente was able to beat Montse Ripoli, 6-1, 6-3, and Couto was able to get another easy victory over Mueller, 6-1, 6-3.

But the deciding match came from Danielsson, who came from behind against Halstrom to get a win.

After dropping the first set, 7-5, she was able to get wins in the next two sets, 6-4, 6-3 to get UMBC the match victory.