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WOMEN'S TENNIS

Bulls Drop MAC Contest to Falcons

UB women's tennis falls at Bowling Green, 5-2

Photo of Kristen Ortman
Kristen Ortman
BOWLING GREEN, OH - The University at Buffalo women's tennis team fell to Mid-American Conference rival Bowling Green, 5-2, on Saturday at the Shadow Valley Tennis and Fitness Club. The Bulls are now 8-4 overall and 0-2 in league play while the Falcons move to 13-4, 2-0 MAC. 

UB claimed the doubles point to go up 1-0 on the Falcons. It was the first time in the last seven matches that Bowling Green did not earn the point. UB's number one combination of Kristen Ortman (Amherst, NY/Amherst) and Natalie Dean (Feilding, New Zealand/Palmerston) knocked off Heidi Romer and Jenna Nussbaum, 8-3, at number one. The win was clinched by the number three duo of Miglena Nenova (Rousse, Bulgaria/Eurointellect) and Smaranda Stan (Stantu Gheorghe, Romania/Economic) with an 8-6 win over Andrea Meister and Andrea Volle. UB's number two tandem of Tina Jacob (Singapore/Raffles JC) and Andreea Novaceanu (Bucharest, Romania/Emil Racovita) fell to BGSU's sister duo of Ashley and Kesley Jakupcin, 8-4.

The lone UB singles victory was by Novaceanu, who moved up to the number two slot for the match. Novaceanu rolled past Nussbaum, 6-1, 6-3, to extend her school-record single season win total to 21 and notch her eighth straight victory.

Ortman fell in a third-set super-tiebreaker to Romer at number three, 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 (10-7). The remainder of the matches were decided in straight sets. Nenova was defeated by Ashley Jakupcin, at number one, 6-4, 6-3. At number four, Dean dropped a 6-4, 6-4 contest to Meister. Stan fell to Kelsey Jakupcin, 7-5, 6-2, at number five, while Jacob lost to Stefanie Menoff, 6-2, 6-1, in the number six match.

In an eight-game pro-set exhibition at number seven, UB's Katrin Fischer (Ternitz, Austria/Borg) fell to Erica Wolfe, 8-1.

The Bulls travel to Akron next Saturday for a MAC showdown with the Zips at 1:00 pm.

Bowling Green 5, Buffalo 2

Doubles

1 Kristen Ortman/Natalie Dean (UB) d. Heidi Romer/Jenna Nussbaum (BGSU), 8-3

2 Ashley Jakupcin/Kelsey Jakupcin (BGSU) d. Tina Jacob/Andreea Novaceanu (UB), 8-4

3 Miglena Nenova/Smaranda Stan (UB) d. Andrea Meister/Andrea Volle (BGSU) 8-6

Singles

1 Ashley Jakupcin (BGSU) d. Miglena Nenova (UB), 6-4, 6-3

2 Andreea Novaceanu (UB) d. Jenna Nussbaum (BGSU) 6-1, 6-3

3 Heidi Romer (BGSU) d. Kristen Ortman (UB), 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 (10-7)

4 Andrea Meister (BGSU) d. Natalie Dean (UB), 6-4, 6-4

5 Kelsey Jakupcin (BGSU) d. Smaranda Stan (UB), 7-5, 6-2

6 Stefanie Menoff (BGSU) d. Tina Jacob (UB), 6-2, 6-1

7 Erica Wolfe (BGSU) d. Katrin Fischer (UB), 8-1

03/25/2006

January 23
WOMEN'S TENNIS vs. ST. JOHN'S
1:00 pm

January 29-31
Women's Tennis at Cornell Tournament
All Day

February 6
WOMEN'S TENNIS vs. CORNELL
1:00 pm

February 7
WOMEN'S TENNIS vs. DUQUESNE
1:00 pm

February 20
Women's Tennis at Columbia
12:00 pm

February 21
Women's Tennis at Army
1:00 pm

February 27
WOMEN'S TENNIS vs. SYRACUSE
1:00 pm

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