SCAC Women's Tennis Recap - Week Four

SCAC Women's Tennis Recap - Week Four

Complete .PDF

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- Six of the eight Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference women’s tennis teams were in action this week.

Austin College women had an 8-1 victory over LeTourneau on Saturday. The ‘Roos swept their three doubles matches to open the day, with Melody Duong and Diana Carvajalino picking up an 8-0 victory. Carvajalino picked up a 6-0, 6-1 victory in the number two singles, with four other singles players finishing the day in two sets.

No.22 Southwestern split matches over the weekend, with a loss to No.2 Claremont-Mudd-Scrips (9-0) Saturday and a 7-2 win over No.21 Caltech on Sunday. First-years Alli Ziehm and Taylor Despriet went 1-1 on the week, picking up three points in the loss to No. 2 ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and broke a 1-1 tie in doubles against the No. 21-ranked Caltech squad, defeating Nina Solovyeva and Ankita Roychoudhury to give the Pirates a 2-1 edge heading into singles, eventually leading to the 7-2 victory.

Schreiner also split games over the weekend with an 8-1 victory over Mary Hardin-Baylor on Friday and a loss to Cal Lutheran (8-1) on Saturday. On Friday, the Mountaineers swept doubles with a pair of 8-3 wins and one 8-6 victory. Jennifer Garcia claimed a victory at the number one singles spot with a 6-0, 6-1 victory.

No.18 Trinity traveled to the Pacific Northwest and earned an 8-1 win over Lewis & Clark on Friday, before taking losses to Linfield (5-4) and Whitman (6-3) on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. Sophomore Megan Flores went 3-0 in singles on the week – picking up two wins at the No. 4 line and one at No. 3.

Texas Lutheran absorbed a 7-2 loss to Concordia on Friday. Bailey Denton and Liz Perkins had the two singles victories for the Bulldogs.

St. Thomas fell to Hardin-Simmons (8-1) and McMurry (7-2) on Saturday. Ana Maria Gonzalez was victorious on three of four matches, picking up singles wins in both matches and a doubles point, along with Alejandra Lopez, against McMurry.

SCAC women’s tennis action continues this week with five team on the schedule.

For links to box scores and recaps from all of last week's season-opening spring action, click below: 

This Week's Results:

Date Away Home Status Links
February
Fri. 21 Concordia (Texas) 7 Texas Lutheran 2 Final
  Trinity (Tex.) 8 Lewis & Clark 1 Final
Sat. 22 St. Thomas (Tex.) 1 Hardin-Simmons 8 Final
  Centenary (La.)   LeTourneau   Cancelled
  Mary Hardin-Baylor 1 Schreiner 8 Final
  LeTourneau 1 Austin College 8 Final
  Trinity (Tex.) 4 Linfield 5 Final
  St. Thomas (Tex.) 2 McMurry 7 Final
  Southwestern (Tex.) 0 Claremont-M-S 9 Final
  Cal Lutheran 8 Schreiner 1 Final
Sun. 23 St. Thomas (Tex.)   Ozarks (AR)   Cancelled
  Trinity (Tex.) 3 Whitman 6 Final
  Southwestern (Tex.) 7 Caltech 2 Final