Box Score LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Junior
Seraphina Vossen and sophomore
Hayley Kreps each won third-set super tiebreakers to lead Lewis & Clark in a 7-2 setback against host Occidental College on Friday afternoon.
THE BASICS
Occidental 7, Lewis & Clark 2
(Lewis & Clark 0-1)
(Occidental 1-0)
HOW IT HAPPENED
Friday's match was far closer than the final score, with four of the six singles matches going to three sets. The host Tigers jumped out to a 3-0 lead after doubles but the Pioneers put up a huge fight at the bottom of the singles lineup.
Vossen earned her first win in a dual match as a Pioneer at number four singles. The junior transfer defeated Julia Chun 6-3, 3-6, 11-9 in a third-set super tiebreaker.
Kreps matched Vossen with a three-set, super tiebreaker win of her own. She dispatched Emma Silber 6-4, 4-6, 11-9 at fifth singles.
Occidental got off to a 3-0 lead thanks to a pair of 8-5 victories. At number one singles, Andei Fukushige and Sarah Fleming defeated the Pios top pair of junior
Arielle Bloom and sophomore
Caren Uribe 8-0. 2. Alexis Matabuena and Mathilde Depery earned the Tigers an 8-5 win at number two doubles over freshman
Susanna Anand and Vossen. Occidental added an 8-5 at third doubles, with Lillian Lin and Silber defeating
Sujhad Amado Aguad and Kreps 8-5.
The Tigers clinched the match win with wins at first and second singles.
Fukushige downed Uribe 6-0, 6-0 at number one singles. Fleming added a 6-2, 6-1 win over Anand at second singles.
At third singles, Matabuena barely held on to edge Bloom 7-5, 3-6, 10-5.
The sixth singles match was just as close. Sophomore
Allison Gabelman took the first set 6-3 over Nicole Anderson, but Anderson won the second set 6-1 to force a super tiebreaker. Anderson finally edged Gabelman 3-6, 6-1, 11-9.
BY THE NUMBERS
- Lewis & Clark took the first set in three of the six singles matches and won at least one set in four singles matches.
- Vossen and Anand were each making their NCAA dual matches debuts.
- The Pioneers were playing their regular-season dual match opener after hosting the University of Oregon Club Team in an exhibition last Saturday.
- Lewis & Clark and Occidental played for the first time since March 28, 2015. The two sides have split the past four meetings dating back to March 2008.
WHO'S NEXT
Lewis & Clark will travel to take on California Lutheran University on Saturday at 2 p.m. in their second of three matches this weekend in California.
