SAN ANTONIO – The No. 48 St. Mary's University Women's Tennis team suffered its second consecutive loss after losing 6-1 to Texas A&M–Corpus Christi on Wednesday afternoon.
The Lady Rattlers fell to 3-2 on the season.
The visiting Islanders swept the doubles point to quickly take a 1-0 lead. In singles play they extended that lead, taking five of the six singes matches en route to a 6-1 victory.
At the top singles position, St. Mary's standout No. 28
Mariana Rong continued her unbeaten streak this season, winning 6-2, 7-6(3) over AMCC's Maider Martin. At the remaining singles positions the Lady Rattlers failed to win a set, but kept each match competitive.
“They played better than us today,” St. Mary's head coach
Lisa Dausin said. “I felt like we competed at every spot. A few adjustments and this could have been a different result. Our girls will keep learning and improve for next match.”
The Lady Rattlers' next match will be at home against Northeastern State University at 2 p.m. Thursday at the St. Mary's Tennis Courts.
St. Mary's University, as a Catholic Marianist University, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community service, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence. The University has six athletic national titles: men's basketball (1989–NAIA), baseball (2001–NCAA Div. II), softball (1986–NAIA and 2002–NCAA Div. II) and an individual national champion in men's golf (2006–NCAA Div. II) and a national academic championship in men's golf (2009–NCAA Div. II). St. Mary's also had more than 40 percent of its athletes named to conference, regional and/or national honor rolls this past year. St. Mary's student–athletes graduation rate is 65 percent, higher than the NCAA Division II average of 55 percent. To learn more about St. Mary's, visit www.rattlerathletics.com.
