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Women’s Tennis Completes Second Day of Play at Rice Invitational
Houston,
Texas – The Penn State women’s tennis team continued play in the Rice
Invitational today. The Nittany Lions sent six individual
competitors and three doubles pairings to the tournament.
In
the Blue Singles tournament Nina Sertic (Zagrab, Croatia) lost to
Caroline Thornton of Tulane, 6-2, 7-6 (5), in the semifinals. The
senior will face LSU’s Ariel Morton tomorrow.
In a
close quarterfinal match Chelsea Utting (Peachtree City, Ga.) was
bested by Caroline Maqnusson of Tulane, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 10-6. The
sophomore lost another close match to Gia McKnight of DePaul, 7-6 (5),
7-6 (5), in the semifinals. She will play Katie Gater of Rice
tomorrow.
In another close match, Marie Bedard (Montreal, Canada) lost to LSU’s Ariel Morton, 6-7 (4), 6-0, 14-12, in the quarterfinals.
In the Gray Singles tournament Fernanda Perrotta (Buenos Aires, Argentina) was bested by Rebecca Bodine
of LSU, 6-0, 6-3 in the semifinals. The senior will face her teammate, Prishlyak, on Sunday.
Sarah
Henderson (Bloomington, Ind.) beat LSU’s Paige Bahnsen, 6-2, 6-0, in
the semifinals and will play another LSU player tomorrow, Hayley
Everett.
Finishing up second day play, Maria
Prishlyak (Kiev, Ukraine) beat Paige Bahnsen of LSU, 6-2, 6-0, in the
in the quarterfinals but lost to Cali Gustafson of DePaul, 6-2, 6-2, in
the semifinals.
In doubles action, Perrotta and
Bedard were bested by Juliana Gajic and Annat Rabinovich of Texas,
8-6. Henderson and Prishlyak lost to Tulane’s Caroline Maqnusson
and Emily Dvorak, 8-4. Utting and Sertic beat Hayley Everett and
Paige Bahnsen of LSU, 8-2 in the quarterfinals, but lost to Lindsay
Dvorak and Caroline Thornton of Tulane, 8-6 in the semifinals.
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