Eastern Michigan Athletics
Eastern Michigan University
Long Beach State
Netters Suffer 6-1 Loss to No. 46 49ers
3/5/2010 12:02:17 PM | Tennis
Key injuries hamper Eagles during West Coast roadie
Westerink won her match over Anais Dallara in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3. The Eagles managed to contend in other matches as Marcela Rivero took the 49ers' Anna Jeczmionka to the brink in a three set thriller, but was unable to earn the win, falling 6-3, 4-6 and 10-4.
The Eagles, who are in the midst of a week-long California road trip, were without one of its top singles players, Julia Breuss. Breuss suffered an injury during a practice earlier in the week.
“Despite having two players out of the lineup with injury, I think we had some better efforts in singles today,” said EMU Head Coach Ryan Ray. Our doubles intensity really needs to improve as we move forward, but overall I think our focus and performance was better than it was in Tuesday's match.”
The team will wrap up its road trip March 5 against Loyola Marymount.
1. Alawi/Manasse (LBSU) def. Westerink/Ahuja (EMU) 8-1
2. Dallara/Armstrong (LBSU) def. de'Lisle-Tarr/Donnet (EMU) 8-3
3. Jeczmionka/Cantlay (LBSU) def. Xu/Rivero (EMU) 8-1
Singles
1. Miriam Westerink (EMU) def. Anais Dallara (LBSU) 6-4, 6-3
2. Jaklin Alawi (LBSU) def. Xu Chang (EMU) 6-3, 6-2
3. Deborah Armstrong (LBSU) def. Georgia de'Lisle-Tarr (EMU) 6-1, 6-1
4. Rachel Manasse (LBSU) def. Celine Donnet (EMU) 6-0, 6-0
5. Anna Jeczmionka (LBSU) def. Marcela Rivero (EMU) 6-3, 4-6, (10-4)
6. Sarah Cantlay (LBSU) def. Rumbidzai Muskwe (EMU) 6-1, 6-0
