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University of Massachusets Athletics
Tennis Travels To Sacred Heart For Tuesday Match
April 03, 2012 | Tennis
April 3, 2012
AMHERST, Mass. - The UMass women's tennis team is set to travel to Fairfield,Conn. for a 3:00 p.m. match against Sacred Heart (6-8, 2-1 NEC) this Tuesday afternoon. The Minutewomen (9-7, 5-1 A-10) are coming off a 7-0 shutout victory against Providence at home this past Sunday. Sonia Bokhari and Chanel Glasper are bringing respective three and four match winning streaks into the match against the Pioneers.
UMass will return home on Thursday, April 5 for a match against Boston University at 2:00 p.m.
Road Trippin' In S.C.
While the UMass student body left campus for spring break, the UMass tennis team was hard at work with a week-long road trip in South Carolina where the Minutewomen took on Charleston Southern, Charlotte and #60 College of Charleston. Judy Dixon's squad posted a record of 1-2 on the trip, notching a 5-2 win against Atlantic 10 foe Charlotte.
Julia Comas kicked things off for UMass with singles wins during the first two matches of the trip against Charleston Southern and Charlotte, boosting her dual match singles record to 10-5 and 16-11 overall. The junior-captain grabbed a 7-6, 6-2 victory from No. 4 singles against Charleston Southern's Marija Dzakovic and a 6-1, 6-2 win over Charlotte's Natsuko Takayanagi at No. 3 singles.
Sonia Bokhari started the three-match stretch with a tough, 6-4, 6-4 loss from No. 2 singles against Charleston Southern but was able to bounce back and close out the trip with two straight victories from the second singles slot. The Louisville transfer defeated Andrea Rivera of Charlotte, 6-2, 6-4 before topping Kelly Kambourelis of 60th ranked College of Charleston in three sets, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6.
Yuliana Motyl, Jessica Podlofsky and Chanel Glasper also recorded singles victories during the duration of the trip. Motyl and Podlofsky helped push UMass over the top of Charlotte with wins at No. 1 and No. 4 singles respectively while Glasper joined Bokhari by recording a victory against #60 Charleston Southern from No. 6 singles in straight sets.
UMass nabbed the doubles point against Charlotte as the No. 1 and No. 3 pairings of Motyl/Chantal Swiszcz and Podlofsky/Glasper garnered respective wins of 8-4 and 8-6.
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