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Senior Erin Waters serves Sunday against the University of Texas at Arlington's
Lisa Jackson. Waters lost the match but the Owls pulled out a 5-2 team win.
Freshmen wins push
Owls to win over UTA
by Eric Raub
THRFSHF.R STAFF
The women's tennis team
bounced back from a lopsided loss
to the University of Central Florida
to post wins against Southwest Texas
State University and the University
ofTexas at Arlington in a three-match
homestand last weekend.
'Hie Owls, ranked 62nd in the
nation, found out they were not as
closely matched with 50th-ranked
Central Florida as their similar
rankings might have implied. The
Golden Knights swept the doubles
matches and held Rice to only one
singles win Saturday.
"We thought they'd be pretty
good," assistant coach Roger White
said. "But they were much stronger
than we had anticipated. We played
well and we played tough, but they
just outplayed us. They're ranked
50th but they should be in the top 30
at the end of the season."
In her match against the Golden
Knights, senior Frin Waters battled
hard at the No. 1 spot before finally
falling to Ann-Jeanette Svantesson
2-6, 7-5, 7-6. No other singles loss
went to three sets.
"We were not fully prepared for a
battle," junior Natalie Briaud said.
"We came out there without any
expectations and without any real
determination. They were also just
really tough players."
The Owls had an easier time on
Sunday against Southwest Texas
State. Rice easily won all three
doubles matches, and the Owls' lone
loss came at the No. 4 spot when
freshman Annie Goodrich defaulted
due to illness.
They were a little bit weaker
team," Briaud said. "But they did an
excellent job of preparing us for our
next match. It got you a little warmed
up and got you ready."
l^ter in the afternoon, the Owls
faced a bigger challenge against
UTA. Despite losing the top two
doubles matches 8-6, the Owls came
back to win five out of six singles
IN FOCUS:
WOMEN'S TENNIS
Record: 3-2
Last week: Opened the
weekend with a 6-1 loss against
50th-ranked University of
Central Florida but came back
to handily defeat Southwest
Texas State University and the
Universityof Texas at Arlington.
What made the difference:
Freshmen Yasmin Fisher and
Karen Chao both came back
from losing their -first set to
win their matches and secure
the Owls' team win over UTA.
Up next: At the University of
Houston today.
matches and left with a 5-2 victory.
"It was kind of an exciting match,"
White said. "We lost the doubles
point but we were really close. We
played really well in the singles."
After Waters fell at the top spot
and the Owls won at the two, three
and four positions, it was up to two
Owl freshmen to decide the outcome
of the match. Chao and fellow fresh-
man Yasmin Fisher came back from
first-set losses to win their respec-
tive matches in the third set.
'"l"hey [Chao and Fisher] wanted
it as badly as the whole team did,"
Briaud said." After they lost the first
set, they hung in there and kept
plugging away. They [UTA] are a
team that is known for being very
consistent and grinding it out, and to
beat them like that, by grinding it
out, is just awesome."
The Owls now stand at 3-1 in dual
match play, but they have yet to beat
a higher-ranked opponent.
"We're really growing by leaps
and bounds," White said. "For each
round we're getting better and bet-
ter and that is how we're going to get
it done. Each match represents a
learning curve and we're getting
better and better."
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