Box Score
The Chicago State women's tennis team swept Western Illinois 7-0 Friday afternoon at the Lakeside Recreation Facility in Galesburg, Illinois. The Cougars have won three straight matches and improve to 4-5 this season while Western Illinois drops to 0-3.
The Cougars captured the doubles point then swept the singles competition with
Lizi Morgoshia winning a 10-5 third-set tiebreaker to preserve the sweep. Complete results listed below.
"I am proud of the level of intensity the girls demonstrated today," associate head coach
Adesuwa Osabuohien said. "They are grasping the idea of how champions must find a way to adjust, by staying in the moment. Susie (Andres) and Lizi (Morgoshia) were really tested and it was great to see them prevail."
The women will be back in action Friday, Feb. 18 at Omaha at the Miracle Hill Tennis Center in Omaha, Nebraska.
Chicago State University at Western Illinois
2/11/2022 at Galesburg, IL
(Lakeside Recreation Facility)
Chicago State University 7, Western Illinois 0
Singles competition
1.
Cali Fuller (CSUW) def. Aina Cortina Pou (WILL) 6-3, 6-1
Doubles competition
Match Notes:
Order of finish: Doubles (3,2); Singles (2,4,1,3)
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Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioning to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. CSU's women's basketball team earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational and CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title and made an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. In 2021, three different CSU teams earned victories over Big Ten opponents with men's soccer beating Northwestern, women's basketball upending Wisconsin and volleyball, which established a school record 17 wins and hosted a post-season volleyball tournament for the first time in program history, swept Indiana in Bloomington.
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