Women's tennis pulls off win against rival Case Western

The women's tennis team has just finished another busy week, beating Case Western Reserve University last Saturday with a score of 6-3. They then lost against Ohio Wesleyan University on Sunday at 2-7, but bounced back to win their last game of the week against Baldwin-Wallace College 8-1.

"We played better than Case Western and Baldwin-Wallace, but we didn't play very well against Ohio Wesleyan. We had a chance to win that match but we just had an off day," said Coach Don Hunsinger. "But that happens in a long season."

The team was very happy with their first win of the week against Case Western, because of a long standing rivalry between the two teams.

The players of the match for Case Western were juniors Leigh Ann Totty and Tara Sievers who "both were really good in singles and doubles, they both had a good day," said Hunsinger.

Totty won her singles match 6-2, 6-1, and Sievers won 6-2, 6-2. In their doubles match they blew out their opponents at 8-3. Other winners at Case Western were all in singles matches. Sophomore Jill Brockelman won 6-2, 6-1, first-year Beth Krupski won 6-2, 6-2, and first-year Aeli Jeon won 6-2, 7-6, with a tie-breaker of 10-8.

At Ohio Wesleyan, the team won two doubles matches. Brockelman and senior Kate Petersen won 8-6, and Totty and Krupski won 8-5.

Brockelman and Petersen won the player-of-the-match honors for the Ohio Wesleyan match. "They had to move up in doubles and they won, and they were both good in singles and Kate was playing up a position," said Hunsinger. Due to Siever's illness, some players had to move up a position.

It was a very disappointing loss to Ohio Wesleyan because we're very close in caliber to them and if we'd each played just a little better I think we could have won. We were missing our number three singles player, Sievers, and we all had to move up. If we play them in conferences with our regular line-up we would be more competitive, and would have a better chance of beating them," said Petersen. "Even though we did play a good match, and the matches were much closer than the scores reveal."

However, the team got back their spirit on Tuesday to beat Baldwin-Wallace.

"At Ohio Wesleyan it was a good match, everyone played really well, but we had some tough matches. On Tuesday we were just doing really well, people were just on their games, it was good," said Krupski.

The player of the match for Baldwin-Wallace was Krupski. "She was just on fire, just tough. Every adjective that you can think of, she was," said Hunsinger. Krupski won her match 6-2, 6-0.

The team won five of the six singles matches. Totty won 6-4, 6-3, Brockelman won 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, Sievers won 6-4, 7-5, and Jeon won by default. In doubles Totty and Sievers won 8-5, Brockelman and Petersen won 8-3, and Oberlin won the last game by default.

"Baldwin-Wallace was fun. I lost the first set but when I won the second I got psyched," said Brockelman.

"Baldwin-Wallace was a good match for improving our skills, especially in doubles," said Petersen.

Hunsinger said that right now the team is concentrating on volleys, "and they've been focusing on doubles and that's really been improving."

The team record now stands at seven wins, 11 losses and one tie.

The team will plays at Allegheny College Saturday. Tuesday the team travels to John Carroll University.