DES MOINES, IOWA - In a match that came down to the wire, Northern Iowa
spoiled the 2010 Missouri Valley Conference opener for the Drake women's tennis
team with a 4-3 victory over the Bulldogs on Sunday (March 28) at the Roger
Knapp Tennis Center.
Drake was hampered in its efforts
to garner its sixth straight win by the absence in the line-up of freshman Ali Patterson (Overland Park, Kan.),
who missed the match due to injury, forcing several Bulldogs to jump up in the
rotation.
The Bulldogs, none-the-less, took
the early momentum in the affair earning the doubles point on the strength of
an 8-6 decision at No. 3 by junior Jessica Labarte's (Barcelona, Venezuela) and sophomore Earlynn Lauer (Wichita, Kan.) over Stefanie Sampaio and Phoebe
Walker.
The Panthers earned triumphs at
the Nos. 3 and 4 singles positions before sophomore Amanda Aragon (Fort Collins, Colo.) squared the affair with a 6-1,
6-3 victory against Talia Jang-Stewart at No. 5.
Northern Iowa posted a win at No.
6 before Walker clinched the decision for the Panthers with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
triumph versus sophomore Gabriela Demos
(Chesterfield, Mo.) at No. 1.
Freshman Manca Krizman (Solkan, Slovenia) closed out the scoring rallying to
post a 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 over Laia Gonzalez-Garrido on the No. 2 court.
Drake resumes
conference action on Saturday (April 3) at Creighton in the first of four
consecutive road league affairs.
Match time is slated for 12:00 p.m.
NORTHERN
IOWA (8-6, 1-0 MVC) DEF. DRAKE (5-7, 0-1 MVC), 4-3
MARCH 28,
2010 - DES MOINES, IOWA
ROGER
KNAPP TENNIS CENTER
SINGLES:
No. 1 Phoebe Walker (UNI) def. Gabriela Demos (DU), 3-6,
6-3, 3-6
No. 2 Manca Krizman (DU) def. Laia Gonzalez-Garrido (UNI),
1-6, 6-3, 6-2
No. 3 Sampada Kanade (UNI) def. Jessica Aguilera (DU), 6-4,
6-2
No. 4 Jessica Kunzelmann (UNI) def. Jessica Labarte (DU),
6-1, 6-0
No. 5 Amanda Aragon (DU) def. Talia Jang-Stewart (UNI), 6-1,
6-3
No. 6 Stefanie Sampaio (UNI) def. Earlynn Lauer (DU), 6-3,
6-2
Order of finish: (4,3,5,6,1,2)
DOUBLES:
No. 1 Demos/Krizman (DU) def. Gonzalez-Garrido/Jang-Stewart
(UNI), 8-0
No. 2 Kanade/Kunzelmann (UNI) def. Aguilera/Aragon (DU), 8-5
No. 3 Lauer/Labarte (DU) def. Sampaio/Walker (UNI), 8-6
Order of finish (1,2,3)
