Bulls Brush Off Colgate, 7-0

Andreea Novaceanu

SYRACUSE, NY – The University at Buffalo women’s tennis team got back into the win column with a 7-0 victory over Colgate at Syracuse’s Drumlins Tennis Center to complete a weekend split of its matches. The Bulls are now 4-1 in dual match play while the Raiders suffered their first loss of the season and are now 3-1.

UB opened the match by taking two of the three doubles contests to secure the first point. The duo of Andreea Novaceanu (Bucharest, Romania/Emil Racovita) and Tina Jacob (Singapore/Raffles JC), playing in the number two position for the first time this season, easily knocked off Colgate’s Cameron Thaney and Lil Vo, 8-0. The Bulls clinched the point with the number three team of Kristen Ortman (Amherst, NY/Amherst) and Natalie Dean (Feilding, New Zealand/Palmerston North) defeated Erin Fenn and Lindsay Grossman, 8-2. The only blemish to UB’s perfect day was in the number one match as the tandem of Miglena Nenova (Rousse, Bulgaria/Eurointellect) and Katrin Fischer (Ternitz, Austria/Borg) fell to Jackie Couture and Alex Seaton, 8-3.

The Bulls rolled to the victory with singles wins in all six matches, highlighted by Novaceanu’s "double-bagel" 6-0, 6-0 win over Grossman at number three. At number one, Nenova breezed by Couture, 6-2, 6-0. Ortman needed a super-tiebreaker victory to defeat Seaton in the number two match. After taking the first set, 6-4, Ortman dropped the second set in a tiebreaker and then rallied to win the 10-point super-tiebreaker, 10-7, to clinch the victory, her second of the weekend. Ortman was UB’s lone victor in Friday’s 6-1 loss to Syracuse.

Fischer, the number four player, defeated Vo, 7-6, 6-3, while Dean, at number five, and Jacob, at number six, allowed their opponents just two games apiece in their wins for the Bulls. Dean downed Fenn, 6-0, 6-2, while Jacob knocked off Thaney, 6-2, 6-0. Playing in an eight-point pro-set exhibition match, UB’s Smaranda Stan (Stantu Gheorghe, Romania/Economy) defeated Lauren Levy, 8-0.

The Bulls travel to Pittsburgh on February 25 to take on Duquesne in their next action.

1 Jackie Couture/Alex Seaton (CU) d. Miglena Nenova/Katrin Fischer (UB), 8-3

2 Andreea Novaceanu/Tina Jacob (UB) d. Cameron Thaney/Lil Vo (CU), 8-0

3 Kristen Ortman/Natalie Dean (UB) d. Erin Fenn/Lindsay Grossman (CU), 8-2

1 Miglena Nenova (UB) d. Jackie Couture (CU), 6-2, 6-0

2 Kristen Ortman (UB) d. Alex Seaton (CU), 6-4, 6-7 (5), 1-0 (10-7)

3 Andreea Novaceanu (UB) d. Lindsay Grossman (CU), 6-0, 6-0

4 Katrin Fischer (UB) d. Lil Vo (CU), 7-6, 6-3

5 Natalie Dean (UB) d. Erin Fenn (CU), 6-0, 6-2

6 Tina Jacob (UB) d. Cameron Thaney (CU), 6-2, 6-0

E Smaranda Stan (UB) d. Lauren Levy (CU), 8-0