Women's Tennis | March 25
TOLEDO, Ohio – The Northern Illinois University women's tennis team opened a three-match road trip Friday with a 6-1 loss at Mid-American Conference favorite Toledo.
With two of its top three players unavailable for Friday's match, the Huskies were forced to shuffle their line-up in both singles and doubles, moving three players up and inserting seniors
Fernanda Naves and
Iuliia Dmitrieva into the No. 5 and 6 singles spots, respectively.
Dmitrieva responded with a 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 win over Toledo's Eileen Carney at No. 6 singles to score the Huskies' lone point. She also teamed with
Reagan Welch at No. 2 doubles as the two recorded a 6-2 victory over the UT duo of Laura Morera and Patricia Panta. However, NIU dropped the doubles point with losses at No. 1 and No. 3.
"Everyone fought hard today, it was a pretty good effort given the situation," said NIU head coach
Eric Burns. "It's tough to beat a team down one top player and two makes it pretty much impossible. I thought we competed well, and the doubles looked improved. We'll try to take some of those positives into Sunday and get ready for Buffalo and Binghamton."
NIU (12-7, 0-2 MAC) continues its road swing on Sunday in Buffalo when the Huskies take on the University at Buffalo and Binghamton in Buffalo at Noon and 5:30 p.m., respectively.
University of Toledo 6, NIU 1
Singles
1. Cassie Alcala (TOLEDO-W) def.
Erika Dimitriev (NIU) 6-2, 6-3
2. Sloane Teske (TOLEDO-W) def.
Reagan Welch (NIU) 6-4, 6-2
3. Julia Kuszynski (TOLEDO-W) def.
Angelica Ross (NIU) 6-2, 6-4
4. Shalini Tallamraju (TOLEDO-W) def.
Christy Robinson (NIU) 6-3, 6-1
5. Patricia Panta (TOLEDO-W) def.
Fernanda Naves (NIU) 6-0, 6-4
6.
Iuliia Dmitrieva (NIU) def. Eileen Carney (TOLEDO-W) 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7)
Doubles
1. Cassie Alcala/Julia Kuszynski (TOLEDO-W) def.
Christy Robinson/
Fernanda Naves (NIU) 6-1
2.
Reagan Welch/
Iuliia Dmitrieva (NIU) def. Laura Morera/Patricia Panta (TOLEDO-W) 5-2
3. Sloane Teske/Chrissy Fuller (TOLEDO-W) def.
Erika Dimitriev/
Angelica Ross (NIU) 6-3
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