FREDERICKSBURG, Va. -- With the effects of Tropical Storm Ophelia still impacting the Fredericksburg area, the 2023 ITA Southeast Regional Championships were forced indoors on Saturday, limiting the amount of first day action. Still, by mid-day the Christopher Newport women's tennis team had advanced all three of it's doubles teams into the Round of 16 with an excellent first round performance to lead the way for CNU on day one. 

In the championship doubles draw, all three Captains' pairings advanced on Saturday with first round victories. Former NCAA qualifiers Raine Weis and Tessa Trate boasted the most dominant of the three victories, defeating their foes from Haverford College by a score of 8-2. Seeded third in the doubles bracket, Weis and Trate will advance to face Swarthmore's Oviya Kumaran and Lola Diaz on Sunday morning. 

Newcomer Kylie Schaefer played with Megan Bauer and earned an 8-3 win in the opening round against Grove City's Janel McCray and Emily Ivory. On day two, the CNU tandem will be charged with facing the second-seeded pair from Mary Washington, Hana Kimmey and Amanda Hagino. Finally, another freshman, Samantha Robertson, played with veteran Kiersten Chang in the first round and the pair out-dueled Mary Washington's Alexandra Jaksec and Jacey Copeland, 8-7 (2). 

Chang and Robertson were two of the three Captains to also earn a singles victory in the championship draw and were joined by Weis. All three went 1-1 on the first day, suffering elimination in the Round of 32. Seven CNU players appeared in the singles bracket on day one, including Weis seeded ninth for the Captains. 

The junior escaped a first-round battle with Johns Hopkins' Samantha Wang with a 6-0, 2-6, 1-0 (7) win to advance to the Round of 32. There, however, Kimmey from Mary Washington edged out the Captains' star, 6-2, 6-2. Chang also used a third-set tiebreaker to advance with a bounceback win against Haverford's Mary Lavin, 4-6, 6-3, 1-0 (5), but nine-seed Kamila Wong from Johns Hopkins ended her run with a 6-1, 6-1 win in the second round. Finally, Robertson cruised through her first career ITA singles match without issue, shutting out Marymount's Sofia Lucero, 6-0, 6-0, but sixth-seeded Gabriela Moss out of Washington and Lee captured a 6-1, 6-4 win against the CNU rookie. 

The doubles teams are set to return to action at 8:00 a.m. on Sunday morning.