Week in Review: Women's Tennis Ends 1-1
Taylor Krouse
Irvine, Calif.- The CUI women's tennis ends the week 1-1 as they battled against Cal State LA and the APU Cougars.
Match vs. Cal State LA: The CUI women's tennis team won their first matchup of the week against Cal State LA. The CUI Eagles started off strong when
Ghazal Pakbaten and
Rebekah Anderson won their doubles match up first in the number one position. Then the Eagles secured the doubles point when
Lou Perrot and
Haley Diefenbach won their matchup in the number three spot. Pakbaten earned another point for the team as she was the first to win in the singles matchups. The game stayed overall even as the final score was 4-3. CUI never gave the lead up though as two more Eagles won their singles matchups.Â
Rebekah Anderson won her singles match in the second position.Â
Taylor Lau also won her singles matchup which led to the CUI Eagles win.
"We started off strong in doubles and had great energy throughout the doubles," said assistant coach
Felix Schumann. "In singles we played mostly a solid match but still need to work on executing our play better. Overall we got a great team win that should give us confidence for the upcoming conference matches."
Match vs. Azusa Pacific:  The Eagles started off strong with Pakbaten and Anderson winning their doubles match up in the number one position. The Cougars were able to win the other two doubles and earn the doubles point. Things started to slow down for the Eagles as APU was able to win the first four singles positions. Lau was the only CUI player to win their singles match up and she earned the solo point for the Eagles. Final score was 1-6 with APU taking the match win.
The Eagles are gearing up for a busy week with four away games up in Fresno and the Bay Area. The first match will be Monday, Mar. 2 at 2:00 p.m. against #23 Fresno Pacific. The next match will be against Academy of Art on Wednesday, Mar. 4 at 9:00 a.m. For the full CUI women's tennis schedule click
here.
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