April 7, 2008

Complete Weekly Notes: Montana State and Weber State

REVIEW
The men's and women's tennis team competed Saturday afternoon, the men at home against Montana State and the women traveled to Weber State. The men were defeated by Montana State 6-1 with Javier Royo gaining the lone singles victory. The women nearly defeated Weber State but fell 4-3. The women collected their second doubles point of the season. The men's Big Sky record fell to a record of 1-4 while the women fell to 0-4.

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES OF THE WEEK: ESPINOSA & ROYO
Senior, Valerie Espinosa gained victories in doubles and singles when the team competed against Weber State. Espinosa and partner Sophie Dang defeated Kelli Lindley and Elsje Beneke 8-5 at the number three doubles spot, improving their record to 2-1 for the season. Espinosa also improved her singles record to 3-1 when she defeated Keya Adamson 7-6, 7-5 at the number five spot. Sophomore Javier Royo gained the lone singles victory for the men in straight sets against Montana State. Royo defeated Dybala 6-2, 6-4 at the number two spot and improves his record to 3-9 for the season.

MEN'S RESULTS
The Bengals won only one of the three doubles contests putting them behind 1-0 in the match. Senior Marc Pijoan and Freshman Danel Barrenechea teamed up to defeat Jakub Dybala and Kyle McDonald 8-5 at the number one spot. Pijoan and Barrenechea improve their doubles record to 4-5 for the season. The last Bengal off the court was Sophomore Alex Buceta who fell in a close super-ten point tie breaker to Justin Hauck at the number five spot. Buceta took the first set in a tie-breaker 7-6 (7-3) but fell in the second set 6-1. Leading the super-ten point tie-breaker throughout the match Hauck continuously gained points on serve to catch up and surpass Buceta to take the tie-break 10-8.

WOMEN'S RESULTS
Sophomore Lisel Lewis and junior Lauren Pascoe gained the other doubles victory to clinch the doubles point when they defeated Gabriela Venditto and Keya Adamson 8-3 at the number two doubles spot. Pascoe played the deciding match for the Bengals. She fought hard to take the first set 6-4, but was overcome in the second and third sets 6-4, 6-3 at the number four spot. Magaly Rivera, a sophomore, defeated Elsje Beneke in thee sets. Rivera was overtaken in the first set 6-4, but redeemed herself by capturing the second and third set 6-4, 6-3 at the number six spot. Sophomore Lewis fell to Gabriela Venditto 7-6, 6-4 at the number one spot.

SAME TIME LAST YEAR
Last year the Bengal men took on Montana and fell 7-0, with only a single doubles victory. The Bengals have only two returning players from the competition, sophomore's Jeremy Atkin and David Kutchins. The women fell to Northern Arizona 7-0 last season. Sophomore additions Magaly Rivera and Madison Snevily look to make an impact on the teams score.