Woburn, Mass. – Bentley University swept past Saint Anselm 4-0 in the first round of the Northeast-10 Women's Tennis Championships on Sunday afternoon.

The Falcons, seeded 8^th in the tournament, advance on to the quarterfinals on Wednesday where they will meet the top seed Franklin Pierce.

Bentley won two of the three doubles matches, No. 1 and No. 3, to earn the doubles point and take a 1-0 lead.

The Falcons then closed it out singles by winning the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 4 matches.

In doubles, the team of Alessa Matuty (San Pedro Sula, Honduras) and Makena Romagnano (New Albany, Ohio/New Albany) won the No. 1 match over Saint Anselm's Emily Jacy and Maikah Bulpitt, 6-4. In No. 3, Bentley's team of Libby Keefe (Lowell, Mass./Lowell Catholic) and Grace Bennett (Paxton, Mass./Wachusett) defeated Josie Hulbert and Elizabeth Janiak, 6-1.

Those two wins gave Bentley the doubles point and a 1-0 lead to take into singles.

The No. 2 doubles match was contested between Bentley's Remi LeSage (Sarasota, Fla./IMG) and Zoe Chin (Lexington, Mass./Lexington) against the Hawks' Dominique Bolduc and Ana Kapothanasis, which they won 6-2.

The No. 2 singles match between Matuty and Kapothanasis was the first to finish, with Matuty the winner 6-1, 6-1 to give Bentley a 2-0 lead.

The next to finish was the No. 1 match between Romagnano and Jacy. Romagnano was a two sets winner, 6-1, 6-2 to make it a 3-0 lead for the Falcons.

Bentley then clinched the match 4-0 when Chin defeated Bolduc in No. 4 by a 6-2, 6-3 score.

The other singles matches in progress were No. 3 between LeSage and Bulpitt. Bulpitt won the first set 6-4 and LeSage the second set 6-1.

The No. 5 and No. 6 matches had just gotten going. In No. 5 it was Keefe leading Janiak 3-2 and in No. 6 Bennett and Hulbert were tied 2-2.