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Bulls Ground Rockets, 6-1
BUFFALO, NY - The University at Buffalo women's tennis team opened the Mid-American Conference portion of the schedule with a decisive 6-1 victory over Toledo Friday afternoon at the Village Glen Tennis Club in Williamsville, NY. The Bulls are now 5-1 overall and 1-0 in MAC play while the Rockets are 8-6 overall and 0-1 in the league. UB secured the doubles point by taking two of the three matches. At number one, the UB duo of Miglena Nenova (Rousse, Bulgaria/Eurointellect) and Kristen Ortman (Amherst, NY/Amherst) rolled past Viviana Rivero and Sarah Horning, 8-2. The number three team of Katrin Fischer (Ternitz, Austria/Borg) and Sabrina Carmona (Sao Paulo, Brazil/MMDC) clinched the point with an 8-3 win over Sarah Thompson and Ashley Carmack. Toledo took the number two match as Myriam Cueva and Sarah VanderMolen defeated UB's Andreea Novaceanu (Bucharest, Romania/Emil Racovita) and Tina Jacob (Singapore/Raffles JC), 8-5. The Bulls took five of the six singles matches, dropping just the number one match as Cueva downed Nenova, 6-0, 6-1. The remainder of the matches fell in UB's favor with three contests in straight sets. Novaceanu improved her singles mark to 15-1 and kept her dual meet record perfect at 5-0 with a 6-0, 6-1 drubbing of Rivero. Ortman knocked off Moran, 6-1, 6-3, at number three and Jacob downed Thompson, 6-1, 6-0, in the number six match.
UB hosts Eastern Michigan in a MAC match on Saturday at the Village Glen Tennis Club. The Bulls and Eagles will hit the court at 3:00 pm, followed by the UB men taking on Toledo at 6:00 pm.
Buffalo 6, Toledo 1 Doubles 1 Miglena Nenova/Kristen Ortman (UB) d. Viviana Rivero/Sarah Horning (UT), 8-2 2 Myriam Cueva/Sarah VanderMolen (UT) d. Andreea Novaceanu/Tina Jacob (UB), 8-5 3 Katrin Fischer/Sabrina Carmona (UB) d. Sarah Thompson/Ashley Carmack (UT), 8-3 Singles 1 Myriam Cueva (UT) d. Miglena Nenova (UB), 6-0, 6-1 2 Andreea Novaceanu (UB) d. Viviana Rivero (UT), 6-0, 6-1 3 Kristen Ortman (UB) d. Daniella Moran (UT), 6-1, 6-3 4 Katrin Fischer (UB) d. Sarah Horning (UT), 6-4, 0-6, 1-0 (10-4) 5 Sabrina Carmona (UB) d. Sarah VanderMolen (UT), 1-6, 6-4, 1-0 (10-5) 6 Tina Jacob (UB) d. Sarah Thompson (UT), 6-1, 6-0 |
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