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Susanna Anand returns a ball in her 3-set victory
Kylie Hill
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East Texas Baptist ETBU (8-5, 0-0 ASC)
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Winner Lewis and Clark Women's Tennis LCWT (5-6, 2-2 NWC)
East Texas Baptist ETBU
(8-5, 0-0 ASC)
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Lewis and Clark Women's Tennis LCWT
(5-6, 2-2 NWC)
Winner

Match Recap: Women's Tennis | | Brian Hauge

Women’s Tennis Routs Tigers In Non-Conference Match

Five Pioneers went 2-0, with Susanna Anand and Kacie Lau earning three-set singles wins.



PORTLAND, Ore. – Playing their third dual in as many days, Lewis & Clark College women's tennis team showed little sign of fatigue in an 8-1 win over East Texas Baptist University in a non-conference match on Monday.
 
THE BASICS
Lewis & Clark 8, East Texas Baptist 1
(Lewis & Clark 5-6, 2-2 NWC)
(East Texas Baptist 8-5, 0-0 ASC)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
 
Junior Arielle Bloom and sophomore Caren Uribe finished their singles matches within a minute of each other with identical 6-1, 6-2 scores to secure the dual win for the Pioneers. Bloom finished first at the No. 3 spot, beating Andrea Alvarez and putting the Pioneers up 4-0. Uribe defeated Jayde Childress at No. 2 to give the Pioneers their fifth point and the non-conference victory.
 
Lewis & Clark started the day sweeping the doubles matches to jump out 3-0. Bloom and sophomore Hayley Kreps won a close match at the No. 2 spot, winning 8-6 over Childress and Grayce Malone. The No. 1 doubles team of freshman Susanna Anand and junior Seraphina Vossen went to a tiebreak against Addy Seward and Bailey Smith, prevailing 8-7 (7-0). Uribe and fellow sophomore Kacie Lau completed the doubles sweep with an 8-4 win over Maryam Sharafeldin and Fernanda Ruiz Burkart at No. 3 doubles.  
 
Vossen made easy work of Sharafeldin at No. 4 singles. Vossen won in straight sets 6-3, 6-1, for her second straight win and third win over all at the No. 4 spot.
 
Anand played the first of two three-set matches at the No. 1 singles spot. Anand beat Seward 6-1 in the first set before dropping the second set 6-3. Since the Pioneers had already secured the dual win, the third set was determined by a 10-point tiebreaker. Anand faced an 8-3 deficit in the third set and made a comeback. Down 10-9, Anand won the next three points to triumph the 12-10 on an ace and secure the Pioneers' seventh point of the night.
 
The second three-setter was between Lau and Isabelle Duarte at No. 6 singles. Lau took the first set 6-4 and lost the second 2-6. She took the third set and the match with an 11-9 win in the 10-point tiebreak.
 
Kreps played the last match of the night to finish, taking on Ruiz Burkart at the No. 5 spot. While two previous matches went three sets, this was probably the day's closest match. Kreps fell in a first-set tiebreak 7-6 (3). The second set was almost just as close before Ruiz Burkart won 7-5 in the second set and notched the lone point for the Tigers.
 
BY THE NUMBERS
  • Lau has won four-straight singles matches this season, making her 4-0 in duals.
  • Freshman Yenenesh Cohen and sophomore Lauren Smith-Euben won a doubles exhibition match against the Tigers.
  • Anand is 5-2 in dual this season, 4-1 at the No. 1 spot.
  • The six wins by the team of Bloom and Kreps is the most by a duo since the 2018-19 season.
WHO'S NEXT
 
Lewis & Clark plays their second non-conference match this week, hosting NAIA Lewis-Clark State College on Thursday at 5 p.m. in the L&C Tennis Dome.
 
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