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Carbondale, Ill. – The Chicago State women's tennis team had their two match winning streak snapped by the Southern Illinois Salukis by a score of 4-2 on Saturday morning (Feb. 15) at the Sports Blast in Carbondale, Ill.
Freshman
Kirsa Utech (Nindorf, Germany/Meldorfer Gelehrtenschule) picked up her fifth consecutive singles victory with a 7-5, 6-7, 6-3 win over Natasha Tomishima.Â
Utech and senior
Karyn Emeralda (Jakarta, Indonesia/) won their fifth straight doubles match by defeating Meagan Monaghan and Anita Lee 8-5 at No. 1 doubles.
Freshman
Faith Huckabee (Hazel Crest, Ill./Homewood-Flossmoor) and sophomore
Carynne Lloyd (East Lansing, Mich./East Lansing) also won 8-5 over Korey Love and Tomishima to clinch the doubles point for the Cougars. It's Huckabee and Lloyd's third victory in a row as a doubles pairing.
In other doubles action, sophomores
Marnie Perez-Ochoa (Louisville, Ky./Male) and
Sabrine Navarro (Melbourne, Australia/) suffered an 8-2 loss to Polina Dozortseva and Ariadna Cairo Baza.
The Salukis scored four singles points to clinch the match. Monaghan defeated sophomore
Gema Bolado Yusta (Madrid, Spain./IES Lázaro Cárdenas) 6-4, 6-1 while Anita Lee beat Perez-Ochoa 6-1, 6-0. Baza took down Lloyd 6-4, 6-4 and Dozortseva won 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 over Huckabee.Â
Chicago State head coach
Jack Barton discussed getting more production out of his team after the match, but also pointed out the good things from the weekend.
"We just need more people on the team to step up," said Barton. "We can't rely on the same people for every match. The positive is that we split the weekend and played well against two well-coached teams."
The Cougars fell to 3-5 on the season while SIU improved to 2-3. CSU returns home to the Homewood-Flossmoor Racquet and Fitness Club for a three-match home stand beginning with a doubleheader next Saturday (Feb. 22) vs. conference rivals UTPA and Grand Canyon. The UTPA match begins at 10:30 AM while the Grand Canyon match is scheduled for 5:00 PM.Â
