Five
Straight Wins for Womens Tennis
by Brian
Roche
The
Oberlin womens tennis team continued to roll along this week,
gaining two important victories over Hope College last Saturday
and Mt. Union College on Tuesday.
On Saturday, Mar. 9, the Yeomen took on Michigans Hope College,
and won by a close 5-4 score. Junior captain Alaina Fotiu-Wojtowicz,
who won her number one singles match, 6-1, 6-1 said, The Hope
match was a good one. Theyre one of our toughest competitions,
and it was a good win for us if were hoping to go to regionals.
Whitney [Reichheld] was definitely the star of the match. She has
a lower back injury. It was hurting her pretty bad and she still
pulled out her win at number five. [First-year] Ary [Amerikaner]
pulled out a tough one in her set at number two. Afterwards team
morale is really good.
Coach Don Hunsinger echoed Fotiu-Wojtowiczs optimism saying,
We felt absolutely great about Saturdays matches. It
was a really tough match and we felt that we had a very good performance.
The team then boosted their record to 5-0 by defeating Mt. Union
with a 7-2 win on Tuesday. Leading the team were Fotiu-Wojtowicz,
Amerikaner and first-year Jessica Hauser, who won their singles
matches at numbers one, two, and four by scores of 6-0, 6-0; 6-0,
6-2; and 6-0, 6-0 respectively.
For
Tuesdays matches, in singles we were really dominant, and
you have to feel good about that, Hunsinger said. In
doubles it gave us some things to work on, and when you play different
styles of teams, it opens up new things that are available to do
and new things you want to concentrate on, and were going
to practice some of that today. We were very happy with the results.
Assistant coach Adam Shoemaker added, It was a good win on
Saturday for the women, and another good one last night, staying
in the groove.
Both
the mens and womens tennis teams now look toward carrying
their success into the NCAC conference season, which begins next
week. Shoemaker commented on this saying, The guys are getting
ready for this weekend, so weve got a big week coming up for
the mens team, with two matches this weekend and our first
conference match. We play Hiram next Wednesday, which is the start
of our half of the conference schedule.
When asked whether he had any predictions to make, coach Hunsinger
said, I dont think you can predict. Thats a tough
thing to do. I predict that were going to get better and were
going to play hard. Thats what I predict. We have some exceptionally
good teams in our conference that have represented our conference
in a tremendous fashion for several years and I dont think
thats going to change this year. We hope to challenge those
people, but we have to keep doing our thing and getting better every
practice.
Were just trying to get the guys all on the same page
so we go into the conference season as a team, a unified front.
So whatever happens, we face together, added Shoemaker.
This
Saturday, March 16, the womens tennis team will face John
Carroll University at home, while the men travel to Mount Union.
The men will host Ohio Wesleyan on Sunday at 1 p.m. and on Wedneday
the women host Hiram College, while the men play at Hiram. Both
Wednesday matches begin at 4:30 p.m.
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