PLANO, Texas — The No. 48 St. Mary's women's tennis team won its second consecutive conference match Sunday defeating opponent Texas-Permian Basin 8-1 on a windy day at Plano West High School.
The Lady Rattlers started off with a 2-1 lead following the completion of doubles. Wins for St. Mary's came at the No. 1 and No. 2 positions by the scores of 8-3, and 8-5. At the No. 3 position UTPB took an 8-5 victory.
In singles The Lady Rattlers swept at every position without dropping a set.
At No. 1 singles No. 28
Mariana Rong continued her unbeaten streak with a straight set victory over UTPB's Casey Acosta 6-4, 6-1.
At the No. 2 and No. 3 positions
Felicity Delgado and Christina Lopez picked up nearly identical scores with wins of 6-0, 6-1, and 6-1, 6-0, respectively.
The No. 4 and No. 5 positions were the most closely contested matches of the day.
Valentine Lambrechts defeated Olivia Baltazar of UTPB 7-5, 6-3 at No. 4. In the No. 5 singles match,
Ariana Saldana held on in two close sets to win 7-6, 7-5 over UTPB's Shelby Greene.
Freshman
Joanie Bryant played solid match to tally a 6-2, 6-3 victory over UTPB's Sydney Holdampf at the No. 6 position.
“Another conference win for us is always a good thing,” said head coach
Lisa Dausin. “Now we refocus for our next match. We'd still like to get a doubles sweep on this trip.”
St. Mary's Women's tennis moves to 7-3 on the season with the win. They return to the court to face East Central University Monday at the L.B. Houston Tennis Center in Dallas.
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.
