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Brooklyn, NY---The Brooklyn College Women's Tennis Team (5-3, 4-0 CUNYAC) defeated York College (3-2, 3-2 CUNYAC) 8-1 on Tuesday afternoon, moving them into first place in the CUNYAC standings.

Nadine Alexander (Boys & Girls / Brooklyn, NY) won her #3 singles match over York's Amba Pika (Newtown / Queens Village, NY), 6-2, 6-0 and Erika Gil (Fort Hamilton / Brooklyn, NY) won her #4 singles match, 6-0, 6-2 over Ashley Willock (Law & Government / Valencia, Trinidad) to clinch the 8-1 victory.

Alexander and Gil had already won their #2 doubles match-up with Willock and Pika, 8-1 as BC took all three doubles matches to give them a 3-0 lead heading into singles play.

York picked up their lone win in the #1 singles flight, when Valerie Roland (Sheepshead Bay / Brooklyn, NY) defeated Ruth Perez (EBC Bushwick / Brooklyn, NY) when Perez was forced to retire due to injury.

Coach Ahmad Odetalla, pleased with the effort, said, "We felt we needed to turn up our intensity for this week's stretch of CUNYAC matches and today's results we a product of that."

The win places Brooklyn in first place temporarily as they prepare for Thursday's showdown with second place Hunter College, who is 3-0 in conference play.