Women’s Tennis: Feb. 13 Scoreboard
Southland Conference
Nicholls 4, Louisiana-Monroe 1
Abilene Christian 4, New Orleans 1
New Mexico State 5, Sam Houston State 2
Nicholls 4, Louisiana-Monroe 1
MONROE, La. – The Nicholls State University women’s tennis team faced one of its toughest tests of the early season as they headed north to take on an undefeated ULM squad on Friday and the Colonels would come away with a 4-1 victory at Heard Stadium.
Nicholls (3-1) took the doubles point by winning two of the three matches. After dropping the match on the No. 1 court, Isla Brock/Kateryna Nakonechna evened up the score with a 6-3 win at No. 2 and Marie Aubert/ Klara Skopac clinched the point with a hard fought 7-5 win over Anadhi Botha/ Jana Duhanova.
In singles, Stephanie Barnett made quick work of Amy Olivier on the No. 1 court with a 6-1, 6-2 victory. Petra Horakova put ULM (4-1) on the board with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Skopac at No. 3, but the Colonels responded with victories on the No. 2 and 6 courts to take the match. Aubert won 6-1, 6-2 before Nakonechna battled Letha Gaigher on the No. 6 court for a 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 victory.
“Good team effort with everyone contributing in any and every way they could. This team is getting very close to a point where they are refusing to accept anything but all around excellence and commitment from each other at any cost on a daily basis. Sometimes that is all it takes to win matches and today was a situation where they really had to dig deep against an extremely talented and well coached ULM team,” said Meenaksi Sundaram, Nicholls tennis head coach. “With a long season ahead and not having started conference play yet , a win like this makes it all the more important to bring it to practice every day and turn it up a notch.”
The Colonels will return to the court next weekend with four matches in the Troy Trojan Jamboree. Nicholls opens conference play on Feb. 27 at New Orleans.
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Abilene Christian 4, New Orleans 1
ABILENE, Texas – Abilene Christian women’s tennis began its second season of Southland Conference competition Friday at the Eager Tennis Pavilion as the Wildcats improved to 3-0 with a 4-1 win over New Orleans.
On a sun-splashed 70 degree afternoon in front a few hundred fans dining on free Dr. Pepper and hot dogs, the Wildcat women won their third consecutive doubles point thanks to a thrilling 9-8 victory by Brittney Reed and Kaysie Hermsdorf that ended in a 7-3 tiebreaker.
The win kept Reed and Hermsdorf undefeated this spring at 8-0 and improved their standing at No. 1 to 3-0. Additionally, Lucile Pothier and Erin Walker raised their No. 2 mark to 3-0 and Nada Marjanovic and Whitney Williams were 8-4 victors at No. 3.
Marjanovic and Williams never took to the singles court as the match was clinched by a pair of three-set wins by Reed and Hermsdorf at the No. 1 and 2 positions, respectively. Reed won her third straight by defeating Anja Luethi, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, while Hermsdorf held back Soledad Arroyo, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, for singles' win No. 5.
Pothier was the first off the court, beating Marta Sans, 6-1, 6-1, and then the Privateers earned their lone point with Anna Segarra topping Walker, 7-6, 6-2.
The ACU women return to action with a recently added dual at Texas A&M on Saturday, Feb. 21.
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New Mexico State 5, Sam Houston State 2
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – Mila Milanovic and Maddie Mortimore picked up two wins for the Sam Houston women’s tennis team in a 5-2 loss to New Mexico State Friday afternoon.
Milanovic defeated Marie-Pier Thiffault at the number four singles 6-4, 6-3. Maddie Mortimore took out Mia Brandt 6-1 6-3.
Olivia Battye went three sets with Ashvarya Shrivistava at the number one position 6-4 6-7 6-4. Karen Martinez also lost a close three-setter at number five singles to Erika Castillo Lopez 6-7 6-3 7-5.
Sam Houston has matches with Northern Colorado and UTEP remaining on their weekend trip West.
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