ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Navy women's tennis team wrapped up the Bill and Sandra Moore Invitational with three Mids earning flight victories this weekend at the Brigade Sports Complex.
 
Kacey Moore (Fr., Wellington, Fla.) was the lone singles competitor to win a flight after winning the "C" flight. In the doubles "B" flight, Miranda Deng (So., North Potomac, Md.) and Katreina Corpuz (Fr., Ewa Beach, Hawaii) won the draw for Navy.
 
"It was a good weekend and it was by far the most competitive field we have had at the Moore Invitational in the 10 years we have hosted the event," head coach Keith Puryear said after the tournament. "Each team that competed here has improved from last year and it presented tough challenges for us right from the start. I am pleased with our progress from our first tournament last weekend to this weekend. I saw a ton of improvement between tournaments.
 
"Congratulations to our flight winners Kacey Moore, Miranda Deng and Katreina Corpuz. I think it was a pretty good accomplishment to have three teams in the doubles finals with Navy against Navy in the "B" flight and we had a pair of Navy versus Navy semifinals. We had good performances all around. There were a couple tight losses, but I thought we performed well. Always at this point in the season, there are things we can work on to get better. We have a couple weeks off before our next invitational and we look to work on some of those things in the coming weeks to continue our improvement."
 
Navy had a strong showing in the doubles "B" flight with an all-Navy championship match. The pairs of Deng and Corpuz and Annalise Klopfer (Fr., Palm Harbor, Fla.) and Moore went unbeaten and into the finals. In the championship match, Deng and Corpuz came out on top, 6-3.
 
Prior to the finals, Deng and Corpuz beat Binghamton's Ashley Granieri and Maria Pandya, 6-1, followed by a 6-2 victory over Liza Rachenko and Smriti Singh of Fairleigh Dickinson. In the semifinals, Deng and Corpuz outlasted Seton Hall's Melody Taal and Michal Matson, 7-5.
 
At the top of the draw for Klopfer and Moore, they beat Lehigh's Leigh Friedman and Elizabeth Nowak, 6-4, and then took down Kendall Addison and Dominique Jackson of Howard, 6-2. The Mids set up the all-Navy affair in the final after winning 6-2 against Anamaria Vladescu and Marta Ruszczynska of Fairleigh Dickinson.
 
The Midshipmen also had Meghana Komarraju (Fr., Vienna, Va.) and Brooke Bogdanovich (So., Suwanee, Ga.) in the "B" flight. The pair first won, 6-2, in the opening round against Catherine Meighan and Grace Lin of Lehigh. However, Komarraju and Bogdanovich lost in the round of 16 to Taal and Matson, 6-3. Simona Babb (Jr., Lighthouse Point, Fla.) and Tina Li (So., Wexford, Pa.) capped off Navy's squad in the "B" flight with a 6-0 loss in their first match to Vladescu and Ruszczynska. 
 
In the doubles "A" flight, the Mids set up another all-Navy affair in the semifinals. The team of Kaylah Hodge (Jr., Upper Marlboro, Md.) and Ansofi Wreder (Jr., Miami, Fla.) took on the pair of Amanda Cyr (So., Cary, N.C.) and Catalina Rico (Sr., San Jose, Calif.) in the semis. Cyr and Rico edged their teammates, 6-3, to move onto the final. Cyr and Rico finished as the flight runners-up after a 6-3 loss to Paula Gonzalez and Sibel Can of Lehigh.
 
Cyr and Rico won the opening round contest against Carolin Menzen and Tatiana Eftenoiu from Fairleigh Dickinson, 6-3, then grabbed a 7-5 win over Seton Hall's Thady Kangwa and Regina Pitts. NJIT's Holly Matson and Rafaella Sampaio withdrew in the quarterfinals for Cyr and Rico to move on to the semifinals. 
 
Hodge and Wreder won a pair of 6-1 contests in the round of 16 and quarterfinals to appear in the semifinals. The Midshipmen first beat Kindha Nasef and Aria Ragas of Howard and then Binghamton's Michelle Eisenberg and Emma Diemling.
 
Aimee Dervishian (Jr., Milton, Ga.) and Danika Kahatapitiya (Jr., Virginia Beach, Va.) dropped their lone match in the "A" flight to Binghamton's pair of Tiffany Dun and Samara Eisenberg, 6-3.
 
Moore captured her first tournament victory with five victories to move to 7-0 in singles competition during her first collegiate season. She started the "C" flight with a victory over Consuela Van Grinsven of St. Bonaventure, 6-0, 6-3 in the opening round. In the round of 16, Moore defeated Monmouth's Rachel Rosenthal in straight sets, 6-2, 6-0.
 
The freshman continued her straight-set victories with a 6-1, 7-6 (7-4) quarterfinal win over Rachenko of Fairleigh Dickinson. Moore's victory setup an all-Navy semifinal matchup in the flight with Cyr. Moore was ahead, 3-0, in the first set before Cyr retired from the match. In the championship match, Moore took on Vladescu of Fairleigh Dickinson. Moore won the first set, 6-0, and then battled from behind in the second set to win in a tiebreaker, 7-6 (7-4).
 
Also in the singles "C" flight, Cyr joined Moore in the top half of the draw. Cyr won her opening round match in three sets, 6-4, 0-6, 10-8, against Mekeila Erspamer of Seton Hall. Cyr's second-round match was a straight-set victory over Howard's Ragas, 6-3, 6-2. Cyr moved into the semifinals after winning a 6-2, 7-6 (7-5) contest over Pandya of Binghamton. However, Cyr's tournament came to an end after retiring against her teammate, Moore, in the semifinals.
 
In the bottom half of the "C" flight, Komarraju dropped her opening round match to flight runner-up, Vladescu, in three sets, 6-3, 3-6, 10-8. In the consolation bracket, Komarraju won her final singles match of the tournament against Maria Ivanova of Monmouth, 8-0.
 
Klopfer earned a bye into the round of 16, but lost, 6-4, 6-4, to Buse Gunay of St. Bonaventure. Klopfer bounced back with an 8-3 win in the consolation bracket versus Sampaio from NJIT.
 
The Midshipmen had four individuals competing in the singles "A" flight, were Wreder led the way with an appearance in the semifinals. Wreder won her round of 16 matchup over Penelope Abreu of St. Bonaventure, 6-4, 6-2. Wreder than captured a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Patriot League foe, Gonzalez of Lehigh. The junior bowed out of the draw in the semifinals after dropping a 7-6 (7-0), 6-0 match with Annicka Fajnarova of Seton Hall – who went on to win the flight.
 
Rico earned a straight-set win in the opening round of the "A" flight, 6-1, 6-2, against Howard's Nasef, but lost to Taal of Seton Hall, 2-6, 6-4, 10-8. Taal finished as the runner-up in the "A" flight.
 
Dervishian lost a narrow three-set decision in the first round to Fairleigh Dickinson's Tatiana Eftenoiu, 5-7, 7-6 (7-3), 10-6. Dervishian then suffered another tight loss in the consolation round to Binghamton's Michelle Eisenberg, 8-3.
 
Hodge was the final individual for Navy in the "A" flight, where she went 1-1. Hodge lost in the opening round in three-set affair, 4-6, 6-4, 13-11, against Advaita Saravanan of NJIT. Hodge rebounded in the consolation rounds with an 8-3 victory against Singh of Fairleigh Dickinson. 
 
Deng paced the Mids in the singles "B" flight with a semifinal appearance. Deng won in straight sets to start the tournament dropping just two games in the win over Tiffany Dun of Binghamton. Deng then swept St. Bonaventure's Ara Veilla without dropping a game. The straight-set wins for Deng continued to come with a 6-3, 6-3 decision against Mayar Eltony from NJIT. Deng's roll was halted in the semifinals to flight runner-up, Michal Matson of Seton Hall, 6-4, 6-4.
 
Bogdanovich earned her spot in the round of 16 after a 6-4, 6-3 sweep of Aleksandra Vorozheikina of Fairleigh Dickinson. Bogdanovich then suffered a 6-2, 6-2 setback to Seton Hall's Pitts in the second round.
 
Corpuz lost her round of 16 contest to Ruszczynksa from Fairleigh Dickinson, 6-2, 6-4, but she then bounced back and won, 8-3, in the consolation round.
 
The Midshipmen had an all-Navy semifinal in the semifinals of the "D" flight after Babb and Kahatapitiya won their first two matches to square off in the top half of the draw. In the semifinal matchup, Kahatapitiya won in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2, to move on the finals, where she dropped a 6-1, 7-5 match to Lizze Nowak of Lehigh.
 
Prior to the semifinals, neither Kahatapitiya or Babb dropped a set. Kahatapitiya beat Meighan of Lehigh (6-0, 7-5) and Howard's Jackson (6-0, 7-5). Babb won matches over Sydney DeNardo of Monmouth (6-2, 6-1) and Anniek Jansen from Seton Hall (6-3, 7-5).
 
Li rounded out the Mids in the singles portion of the tournament with a 1-1 mark in the "D" flight. Li earned a round of 16 victory over Zaynah Muhammad from Monmouth, 6-0, 6-2, but lost in the quarterfinals to Fairleigh Dickinson's Patricia Eftenoiu, 6-0, 6-2.
 
Next up, Navy will send Wreder and Hodge to compete at the Milwaukee Tennis Classic in Milwaukee, Wis., from Thursday through Sunday this week.