PUEBLO DUALS
Sept. 16 • Pueblo, Colo. • Pueblo City Park
9:30 a.m. • Colorado Mesa
6 p.m. • Colorado College
Sept. 17 • Denver, Colo. • The Assembly Athletic Complex Tennis Courts
Noon • MSU Denver
NET POINTS
•   St. Mary's heads to Colorado for the Pueblo Duals, where they will face RMAC opponents Colorado Mesa and MSU Denver, sandwiched around Colorado College. Lubbock Christian, UT Permian Basin, Fort Hays State, Nebraska Kearney and host, Colorado State Pueblo will also compete in the three-day tournament.
•   The Rattlers won six singles titles and a pair of doubles flights at the annual St. Mary's Invitational to open the 2022-23 season on Sept. 2-3. Newcomers Kyndall Quiroz, Vanessa Rodriguez and Alessia Terlizzi, along with sophomore Callah Preti all went undefeated in singles play, while freshman Katie Sergeeva and senior Angela Vargas both won their flights as well. Senior Ashley Penshorn and Quiroz, and freshman Stela Sifuentes and Preti, each also took home doubles titles.
•   This is the first time since the 2014-15 season the Rattlers will compete in a fall invitational where duals take place, but in the St. Mary's Fall Quad, team scores were not awarded.
•   The Rattlers return seven letterwinners off last season's NCAA Round of 16 team, including fifth-year senior Ashley Penshorn and Lone Star Tournament MVP Angela Vargas. StMU also welcomes four freshman and junior transfer Kyndall Quiroz from Midwestern State.
•   Senior Ashley Penshorn broke the St. Mary's single-season record for wins in a season (fall and spring combined) with 27 in 2021-22. Penshorn broke the mark of Mariana Rong who had 24 victories in 2014-15.
•   The Rattlers won their first-ever Lone Star Conference Tournament earlier in the spring with wins over #72 DBU, #56 UT Tyler and #9 Cameron. Angela Vargas was named MVP of the championship after pulling off a comeback win over Cameron in the finals. She dropped the first set 6-1 and bounced back to only lose three games the rest of the way, winning 6-2, 6-1. Gabi Ioannou, Ashley Penshorn and Alice Thane were also named to the All-Tournament Team.
