Women’s Tennis: March 25 Scoreboard
Southland Conference
Lamar 5, Louisiana-Lafayette 2
No. 41 LSU 5, Nicholls 1
Lamar 5, Louisiana-Lafayette 2
LAFAYETTE, La. – A doubles sweep fueled the Lamar women's tennis team as the Lady Cardinals clinched their third-straight win on a 5-2 victory over Louisiana-Lafayette on Wednesday at the Cajun Courts.
Lamar (6-8) claimed the doubles point with wins on courts one and two, and swept win a win on three. On No. 1 Carolina Maso and Kayta Lapayeva defeated Nelo Phiri and Elena Sava, 8-3. The team holds a season mark of 3-4 and are 2-2 from line one.
The second court clinched the doubles point after Anna Spengler and Andrea Ivanovic took down Alexandra Way and Abby Johnson 8-3. Even with the point clinched, both programs agreed to play out the third court win that was close, but Hanna Elfving and Stephanie Marchena won 8-6.
Ivanovic and Elfving improved their team record to 5-3, and have clinched three straight matches. Elfving and Marchena defeated Kelly Drew and Lauren Dupuis to claim a 3-3 mark and also pushed their win streak to three.
In singles action, court two tied the match at 1-1 after Louisiana-Lafayette's (3-12) leader in wins, Drew, defeated Anna Spengler, 6-3, 6-1. Marchena quickly gave LU the lead against when she downed Lauren Dupuis 6-2, 6-0 from position six.
It was freshman Marchena's fourth straight win and improved her singles mark to 6-3 and 4-3 on line six.
After Maso's 6-1, 6-2 win on No. 4 gave the Lady Cardinals a 3-1 lead, Ivanovic clinched the match on a 6-4, 7-5 win on line three. Maso's win over Alexandra Way improved her record 8-4 and was the fifth victory in a row. Ivanovic, who defeated Elena Sava, is 6-8 on the season and 3-4 from the third court.
Abby Johnson notched the Ragin’ Cajuns their second point after a three-set match against Hanna Elfving. Johnson took the first set 6-4, Elfving battled back for a 6-2 set two win, but Johnson prevailed 6-1 in the last set.
Katya Lapayeva won in a three-setter to improve her season record to 5-9. She overcame Nelo Phiri 6-3 in the first set, but Phiri answered with a set two win (6-3). Lapayeva bounced back to win 6-1.
Lamar gets back in to Southland Conference play for the rest of the season at Central Arkansas on Saturday morning at 11 o'clock. It is the last road match of a four-game swing before the Lady Cards return to the Thompson Family Tennis Center on April 3 for a match up with Incarnate Word.
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No. 41 LSU 5, Nicholls 1
BATON ROUGE, La. – The Nicholls State University women’s tennis team saw its seven-match winning streak come to an end Wednesday evening as the Colonels dropped a 5-1 decision to No. 41 LSU at W.T. 'Dub' Robinson Stadium.
The teams elected to not play doubles and the host Tigers took the first four completed matches to earn the victory. LSU earned all five of its points in straight sets, while Kateryna Nakonechna came away with a win at No. 6 in a tiebreaker to prevent the shutout.
Stephanie Barnett was defeated 6-2, 6-0 to No. 39 Joana Vale Costa at No. 1, while Klara Skopac also fell to a ranked opponent, dropping a 6-1, 6-4 decision to No. 69 Skylar Kuykendall at No. 2. On the No. 4 court, Milou Pietersz fell 6-2, 6-0 to Ella Taylor, and Marie Aubert took a 6-4, 6-1 loss against Noel Scott at No. 3 to give LSU the team victory.
With the match already decided, Isla Brock came up short on the No. 5 court, falling 6-3, 7-6 (8-6) to Skylar Holloway. On the No. 6 court, Nakonechna won a three-set 6-4, 2-6, 1-0 (10-6) match against Amanda Atanasson.
The Colonels will play their next four matches on the road, starting Friday, March 27, against Texas Pan-American.
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