General 4/2/2022 9:30:00 PM

Chicago State Women’s Tennis Falls to New Mexico State 4-3

Cougars Face Seattle U Sunday

Box Score

The Chicago State women's tennis team lost to New Mexico State Saturday night at the Seattle University Tennis Courts in Seattle in their first Western Athletic Conference match of the season. The Cougars captured the doubles point but the Aggies responded with three consecutive singles wins. Katarina Dukic cut New Mexico State's lead to 3-2 and Kristina Pukhaeva earned a three-set win tie the match, leaving the deciding match to Lizi Morgoshia who dropped a 6-3, 6-4 decision.

"I'm very proud of how we started our doubles match," associate head coach Adesuwa Osabuohien said. "We had a plan and no one deviated from our goals. This was our best team performance in doubles this season. In singles, we were so close to winning, we just lacked that same discipline we used in doubles. Overall, we pushed forward and are getting better each day."

The Cougars will be back in action Sunday morning, taking on host Seattle U at 10:15 a.m. at the Seattle University Tennis Courts.

Chicago State University vs New Mexico State

4/2/2022 at Seattle, Washington

(Seattle University Tennis Courts)

New Mexico State 4, Chicago State University 3

Singles competition

1. Chloe Gavino (NMSU) def. Katarina Drazic (CSUW) 6-4, 6-3

2. Kristina Pukhaeva (CSUW) def. Mingfang Zhu (NMSU) 7-6 (7-4), 2-6, 6-2

3. Natsuki Nishimura (NMSU) def. Diana Borodina (CSUW) 6-2, 6-1

4. Gavi Kalaga (NMSU) def. Sofiya Sedovich (CSUW) 6-4, 6-1

5. Bella Nguyen (NMSU) def. Lizi Morgoshia (CSUW) 6-3, 6-4

6. Katarina Dukic (CSUW) def. Georgia Townsend (NMSU) 6-3, 6-3

Doubles competition

1. Chloe Gavino/Mingfang Zhu (NMSU) def. Katarina Drazic/Lizi Morgoshia (CSUW) 6-2

2. Katarina Dukic/Kristina Pukhaeva (CSUW) def. Natsuki Nishimura/Gavi Kalaga (NMSU) 6-1

3. Diana Borodina/Sofiya Sedovich (CSUW) def. Bella Nguyen/Miranda Bishard (NMSU) 6-3

Match Notes:

Chicago State University 6-13, 0-1 WAC

New Mexico State 5-13, 2-0 WAC

Doubles order of finish | 2,1,3

Singles order of finish | 3,1,4,6,2,5

About Chicago State
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. In 1991, the Chicago State women's tennis team became the first all-black college team to amass an unbeaten season at the NCAA level. 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, also making 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. Chicago State volleyball recorded a historic season in 2021, with Yanlis Feliz becoming CSU's first volleyball All-American and head coach Tony Trifonov earning selection as WAC Coach of the Year. During that same season, 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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Players Mentioned

Katarina Drazic: Junior

Kristina Pukhaeva: Sophomore

Lizi Morgoshia: Sophomore

Diana Borodina: Sophomore

Katarina Dukic: Freshman

Sofiya Sedovich: 5' 7"; Sophomore

Players Mentioned

Katarina Drazic
: Junior

Kristina Pukhaeva
: Sophomore

Lizi Morgoshia
: Sophomore

Diana Borodina
: Sophomore

Katarina Dukic
: Freshman

Sofiya Sedovich
: 5' 7"; Sophomore

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