Spring Break
Women's tennis off to a good startwith trio of winning competitions
Lanny Newton
Issue date: 2/18/09 Section: Sports
After facing ACC powerhouse's Wake Forest and North Carolina, the Gardner-Webb women's tennis team pulled off three wins in four matches before falling to Winthrop on Monday.
The Lady Bulldogs had won two matches in a row before the loss. The first of the consecutive wins came at Wofford, while the other came at home against Erskine.
In the Wofford match, the Lady Dawgs swept the doubles matches but it took some work to do it. Laura Kreitt and Rita Gouveia took the maximum amount of games to win, edging out the Terriers team 8-7(8-6).
The other two tandems for GWU, Kasey Ellis/Amy Beavers and Tavenner Black/Jenny Gomez, won 8-5.
In the singles matches, only Kreitt and Beavers were unable to find a victory, as GWU cruised to a 5-2 win.
Just a day later, GWU hosted Erskine and continued its winning ways. After winning the doubles point with victories by the duos of Black/Gomez and Ellis/Beavers, the Lady Bulldogs notched 5 points in singles in route to a 6-1 victory.
The Erskine win brought the ladies to 3-3 on the season, but are now 3-4 after the unfortunate stumble against Big South preseason number one Winthrop.
The ladies will return to action Saturday as the team travels to Myrtle Beach to take on conference foe Coastal Carolina.
The Lady Bulldogs had won two matches in a row before the loss. The first of the consecutive wins came at Wofford, while the other came at home against Erskine.
In the Wofford match, the Lady Dawgs swept the doubles matches but it took some work to do it. Laura Kreitt and Rita Gouveia took the maximum amount of games to win, edging out the Terriers team 8-7(8-6).
The other two tandems for GWU, Kasey Ellis/Amy Beavers and Tavenner Black/Jenny Gomez, won 8-5.
In the singles matches, only Kreitt and Beavers were unable to find a victory, as GWU cruised to a 5-2 win.
Just a day later, GWU hosted Erskine and continued its winning ways. After winning the doubles point with victories by the duos of Black/Gomez and Ellis/Beavers, the Lady Bulldogs notched 5 points in singles in route to a 6-1 victory.
The Erskine win brought the ladies to 3-3 on the season, but are now 3-4 after the unfortunate stumble against Big South preseason number one Winthrop.
The ladies will return to action Saturday as the team travels to Myrtle Beach to take on conference foe Coastal Carolina.
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Blake DuDonis
posted 3/01/09 @ 3:24 PM EST
Lanny did not write this article; I did. I don't know why it is so hard to convert the names from the paper to here...
Warwick Movers
posted 8/18/09 @ 3:15 PM EST
Great article, Blake.
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