Terrapins Defeat Rutgers 4-1 – University of Maryland Athletics

Box Score COLLEGE PARK, MD- The No. 52 Maryland Terrapins defeated Rutgers 4-1 in the Terps first of two matches on Saturday. 

Selma Cadar and Kallista Liu opened the match with a 6-3 win in the No. 2 doubles match. #60 Minorka Miranda and Maria Budin followed by taking the No. 1 doubles match 6-2 securing the doubles point for Maryland and a 1-0 lead heading into singles.

Maryland extended their lead in singles, with # 66 Selma Cadar winning the No. 1 singles match 6-4, 6-1. Kallista Liu followed Cadar winning her third straight singles match extending the Terps lead to 3-0 taking the No. 3 singles match 6-3, 6-1.

Rutgers got on the board winning the No. 6 singles match to make it 3-1.

Maria Budin shut the door for the Terps, winning the No. 4 singles match in a hard fought 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 win.

With the victory over Rutgers Maryland improves it’s home record to 9-1.

BREAKING DOWN THE ACTION

DOUBLES

1. Minorka Miranda/Maria Budin (UMD) def. Yana Gurevich/Mai Nguyen (RU) 6-2

2. Selma Cadar/Kallista Liu (UMD) def. Tara Chilton/Minchae Kim (RU) 6-3

3. Aida Eissa/Diya Challa (UMD) vs. Amira Badawi/Naomi Karki (RU) 4-3, unfinished

Order of finish: 2, 1

SINGLES

1. #66 Selma Cadar (UMD) def. Yana Gurevich (RU) 6-4, 6-1

2. Minorka Miranda (UMD) vs. Tara Chilton (RU) 6-4, 4-6, 2-4, unfinished

3. Kallista Liu (UMD) def. Amira Badawi (RU) 6-3, 6-1

4. Maria Budin (UMD) def. Mai Nguyen (RU) 6-4, 4-6, 6-2

5. Diya Challa (UMD) vs. Minchae Kim (RU) 5-7, 6-6, unfinished

6. Jackeline Lopez (RU) def. Francesca Feodorov (UMD) 6-1, 6-4

Order of finish: 1, 3, 6, 4

Up Next: 

• The Terps will return to action at 4 PM to face George Mason.