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LC opens up spring tennis season with win
From sports staff reports
Baytown Sun Published February 6, 2010 The Lee College Lady Rebel scored a 5-4 win over four-year school Tarleton State Friday to open its spring season on the first day of the Lady Rebel Invitational on the school’s courts.
No. 1 player Nadia Lee and freshmen Dionicia Akina and Manuela Gomez collected a pair of wins each.
Lee took a 6-3, 6-4 singles win over Adriana Jaskova and teaming with Akina for an 8-4 doubles victory over Tarleton’s Rocio Cabanillas and Mariana Freitas.
Gomez and Frederique Sunstrum won at No. 2 doubles, dispatching the duo of Jade Charlot and Evgeniya Prokofeva 8-6. Then Gomez scored a 6-3, 6-3 win over Freitas at No. 4 singles.
Akina downed Charlot 7-5, 3-6 (10-3) at No. 3 singles.
The No. 3 Lady Rebels doubles team of Francesca Bassoo and Huong Huynh fell 1-8 to Carole Julen and Jaskova.
Cabanillas downed Sunstrum at No. 2 singles, 6-2, 6-1, while Prokofeva beat Bassoo at No. 5 singles 6-2, 6-3 and Julen breezed past Shana Landry 6-0, 6-1 at No. 6 singles.
“We played some good tennis today,” LC coach Jason Haynes said. “I was impressed by Manuela and Dionicia; they really played well.
“But we need to play better in some other spots.”
Play continues today as Lee College takes on Trinity University at 10 a.m. and Prairie View A&M at 2 p.m. Prairie View downed Trinity 5-4 Friday.
Baytown Sun Published February 6, 2010 The Lee College Lady Rebel scored a 5-4 win over four-year school Tarleton State Friday to open its spring season on the first day of the Lady Rebel Invitational on the school’s courts.
No. 1 player Nadia Lee and freshmen Dionicia Akina and Manuela Gomez collected a pair of wins each.
Lee took a 6-3, 6-4 singles win over Adriana Jaskova and teaming with Akina for an 8-4 doubles victory over Tarleton’s Rocio Cabanillas and Mariana Freitas.
Gomez and Frederique Sunstrum won at No. 2 doubles, dispatching the duo of Jade Charlot and Evgeniya Prokofeva 8-6. Then Gomez scored a 6-3, 6-3 win over Freitas at No. 4 singles.
Akina downed Charlot 7-5, 3-6 (10-3) at No. 3 singles.
The No. 3 Lady Rebels doubles team of Francesca Bassoo and Huong Huynh fell 1-8 to Carole Julen and Jaskova.
Cabanillas downed Sunstrum at No. 2 singles, 6-2, 6-1, while Prokofeva beat Bassoo at No. 5 singles 6-2, 6-3 and Julen breezed past Shana Landry 6-0, 6-1 at No. 6 singles.
“We played some good tennis today,” LC coach Jason Haynes said. “I was impressed by Manuela and Dionicia; they really played well.
“But we need to play better in some other spots.”
Play continues today as Lee College takes on Trinity University at 10 a.m. and Prairie View A&M at 2 p.m. Prairie View downed Trinity 5-4 Friday.