ITHACA, N.Y. – The women's tennis team returns home to kick off a three-match homestand this weekend with a 1 p.m. Sunday match against Binghamton. Army then visits Reis Tennis Center at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.
 
Cornell (5-2) is coming off a seventh-place finish at the ECAC Indoor Championships, which featured a 3-0 victory over Fairleigh Dickinson following 5-2 losses to No. 40 Princeton and No. 70 Columbia. Sophomore Ryann Young won all three of her matches at No. 3 singles to improve to 7-0 on the year, as did the doubles team of freshmen Sara Perelman and Rosemary Li.
 
Cornell has already seen Binghamton twice this year, though neither occasion was a match with team scoring. The Big Red was 17-2 in singles matches and 5-2 in doubles matches against the Bearcats at the Cornell Fall Invitational in mid-September and the Cornell Winter Invitational in late January.
 
Binghamton (3-4) is coming off a split in two matches last weekend at Binghamton Tennis Center. The Bearcats edged Albany, 4-3, before suffering a 7-0 loss to Temple. The Big Red defeated Temple, 5-2, on Feb. 5.
 
Senior Jillian Santos, who has a 80-42 career record, has been competing at the No. 1 spot for the Bearcats. She defeated Cornell's No. 1, junior Sarah O'Neil, in their September clash. Cornell's Mike Stevens, in his second year as the Carl H. Meinig '31 Head Coach of Women's Tennis, served as the head coach at Binghamton for seven years.
 
Army will also be a familiar sight for the Big Red, after players from both squads competed against each other at the USTA BJK NTC College Invitational in October and the Cornell Winter Invitational in January. Cornell's Lauren Frazier, Nina Turudic and O'Neil won the three singles matches between the Big Red and Black Knights, with Cornell also holding a 3-1 edge in doubles matches.
 
Army, the defending Patriot League champion, is 7-3 heading into three home matches this weekend. Erin Colton is 1-7 at No. 1 singles, while Jamila Paul has a 5-3 record at No. 2. Natalie Allen has had the most success this spring with a 7-2 mark dotting the lineup in Nos. 1, 4, 5 and 6.