Kristen Ortman

TAMPA, FL - The University at Buffalo women's tennis team made it two-for-two on Wednesday with a 6-3 victory over Division II member Tampa. The Bulls, now 6-4, won their second straight match of their spring break trip to Florida after defeating Wisconsin-Green Bay, 7-0, on Sunday. The match was played using the Division II rules of each individual contest counting for one point in the team scoring.

In the doubles competition, the Bulls took two of the three contests. The number one duo of Kristen Ortman (Amherst, NY/Amherst) and Miglena Nenova (Rousse, Bulgaria/Eurointellect) defeated Liz Moulthrop and Abby Shelide, 8-4. UB's number three team of Katrin Fischer (Ternitz, Austria/Borg) and Sheri Ugowski (Orchard Park, NY/Orchard Park) scored an 8-6 victory over Lindsey McLendon and Brittany Johnson. The Bulls narrowly missed a doubles sweep as the number two squad of Erica Zielinski (North Tonawanda, NY/North Tonawanda) and Lisa Wittman (Cheektowaga, NY/Cheektowaga) were defeated in a tiebreaker by Paula Fillion and Heather Eli, 9-8 (7-2 in the tiebreaker).

Katrin Fischer

UB took four of the six singles matches, including the top three. Nenova, at number one, rolled past Moulthrop, 6-1, 6-1. Ortman, at number two, and Fischer, at number three, needed to overcome first set deficits to post wins for the Bulls. After falling 6-3 in the first set of her match against Fillion, Ortman won the final two sets, 6-1, 6-3 to claim the victory. Fischer and Shelide split sets in their match with Shelide taking the opener, 7-6, before Fischer rallied to take the second, 6-4. The match then went to a ten-point tiebreaker due to time constraints with Fischer pulling out a 10-5 win to claim the match. Onessa Williams (Albany, NY/Albany/Mohawk Valley CC) saw her first action of the trip at number six picking up a 6-4, 6-1 win over Johnson for Williams' first singles victory of her UB career.

Wittman and Kollarova dropped their matches in straight sets. Wittman, at number four, fell to McLendon, 6-1, 6-1, while Kollarova, at number five, was defeated by Eli, 6-2, 6-3. The loss by Kollarova snapped her unbeaten string of nine straight matches.

The Bulls conclude the trip with a match against Atlantic Ten member Dayton on Friday.

Buffalo 6, Tampa 3

Doubles

1 Kristen Ortman/Miglena Nenova (UB) d. Liz Moulthrop/Abby Shelide (UT), 8-4

2 Paula Fillion/Heather Eli (UT) d. Erica Zielinski/Lisa Wittman (UB), 9-8 (2)

3 Katrin Fischer/Sheri Ugowski (UB) d. Lindsey McLendon/Brittany Johnson (UT), 8-6

Singles

1 Miglena Nenova (UB) d. Liz Moulthrop (UT), 6-1, 6-1

2 Kristen Ortman (UB) d. Paula Fillion (UT), 3-6, 6-1, 6-3

3 Katrin Fischer (UB) d. Abby Shelide (UT), 6-7, 6-4, 1-0 (10-5)

4 Lindsey McLendon (UT) d. Lisa Wittman (UB), 6-1, 6-1

5 Heather Eli (UT) d. Michelle Kollarova (UB), 6-2, 6-3

6 Onessa Williams (UB) d. Brittany Johnson (UT), 6-4, 6-1