Tennis Sweeps Weekend
Feb. 19, 2005
HOUSTON - Houston Tennis made it a clean sweep over the weekend as the Cougars completed a three-match sweep over three Louisiana schools over Friday and Saturday competition. Fresh off a 5-2 win over Louisiana Tech on Friday, the Cougars won 5-2 over Southeastern Louisiana and then 5-1 over Louisiana-Lafayette. "Right now I feel like we are not playing great tennis, but we are playing with a lot of heart," said Houston head coach John Severance. "It's nice to come away from a weekend with three matches in two days and win them all." With the win, the Cougars improve to 8-2 on 2005 with three teams ranked in the top 50 on the upcoming schedule. Against Southeastern Louisiana, the Cougars claimed the doubles point without dropping a match, winning all three doubles matches by a score of 8-5. In singles, junior Kami Miller and Yolandi Terblanche rolled to easy victories along with freshman Briane Bateup, while senior Bilijana Dimovska battled through a three-set tiebreaker match at the No. 1 spot to earn the win. Facing Louisiana-Lafayette in the afternoon, Houston claimed five of the six singles matches to win the match without needing to play the doubles. Dimovska extended her unbeaten streak to 8-0 in singles play while Terblanche, Miller and Bateup all recorded 3-0 records on the weekend with their wins against the Raging Cajuns. The Cougars get the next week-and-a-half off before they hit the courts against Texas A&M at home on Thursday, March 3.
Houston 5. Southeastern Louisiana 2 DOUBLES... 1. DIMOVSKA/TERBLANCHE (UH) DEF. KNAVS/KOVAC(SEL) 8-5 SINGLES....
1. DIMOVSKA(UH) DEF. KOVAC 6-4,4-6,10-7 2. ARNAUDOVSKA DEF MARTIN(UH) 7-5, 6-1 3. MILLER(UH) DEF. SIMURKOVA 6-0, 6-0 4.BATEUP(UH) DEF. KNAVS 6-1, 6-4 5. TERBLANCHE(UH) DEF. PUFLEROVA 6-0, 6-2 6. PHILLIPS DEF McLOUGHLIN(UH) 5-7, 7-6, 10-6
HOUSTON... 5 Louisiana-Lafayette 1 SINGLES....... |
