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BGSU Bests Ball State, 5-2
April 08, 2007 | Women's Tennis
April 7, 2007
TOLEDO, Ohio (BGSUFalcons.com) - The Bowling Green State University tennis team continued its winning ways at the Shadow Valley Tennis Club, posting a 5-2 victory over Ball State University Saturday afternoon (April 7) in Mid-American Conference dual action.
With the win, the Falcons improve to 12-5 in dual-match play and 4-1 in MAC action. BGSU has won three-straight matches. The Cardinals drop to 6-12 and 1-5, respectively.
The match was closer than a 5-2 final might indicate. With play completed at all but the top-two singles flights, the Falcons held a slim 3-2 overall lead as both singles contests went to a third set.
At the second flight, freshman Samantha Kintzel fell behind BSU's Haly Calderwood by a 3-0 score in the third set, but Kintzel was able to rally for a 6-4 win. Meanwhile, at the top flight, senior Ashley Jakupcin had dropped her first set to the Cards' Sophie Quist, but came back to take each of the next two sets and the match.
The Cardinals' lone two wins of the day came at the fourth and fifth flights, where Christine Stromberg and Emma Retter picked up those wins in straight sets. Stromberg needed a second-set tiebreaker to get past junior Jenna Nussbaum at the fourth flight.
Falcon sophomore Stefanie Menoff continued her dominant singles play, losing a total of only three games against Katherine Rist at the sixth flight. Soph Kelsey Jakupcin also won in straight sets, losing a total of only five games against Jennifer Pollack at the third flight.
BGSU had taken the doubles point, with Kelsey Jakupcin and Nussbaum earning an 8-6 win at the top flight, and the duo of Ashley Jakupcin and Kintzel earning a third-flight win by an 8-4 outcome.
The Falcons will be in action next weekend against first-place Western Michigan, with that match scheduled for Saturday afternoon (April 14) at 1:00 p.m. in Kalamazoo. The Broncos have won 23 consecutive regular-season matches vs. MAC foes.
FALCON TENNIS NOTES
* The Falcons have topped the team's MAC win total for all of last season ... BGSU is 4-1 in conference matches this year, after going 3-5 in 2005-06.
* BGSU has won three consecutive matches, and the Falcons have won seven of the last eight contests ... in fact, BG has won 11 of 13 dual matches since a 1-3 start.
* The Falcons now trail the all-time series with Ball State by a 17-13 count ... BGSU's win broke a three-match Cardinal winning streak, since the Falcons' last win, in the 2002-03 season.
* Sophomore Stefanie Menoff now has a stellar 21-2 record in singles play this season, and is 39-10 in her career in singles action ... she is a perfect 5-0 in MAC singles matches this season to date.
* BGSU's 4-1 MAC start is the Falcons' best in seven years, since the 1999-2000 team also won four of the first five conference matches of the season ... that '99-2000 squad tied for third in the 10-team MAC regular-season race, with a 6-3 mark, and was BG's last team to advance to the semifinals of the MAC Championships.
* The Falcons are now a perfect 7-0 in dual-match play at Shadow Valley this year, and BGSU is 15-1 at the facility over the last two seasons.
BOWLING GREEN 5, BALL STATE 2
Saturday, April 7, 2007 // Shadow Valley // Toledo, Ohio
SINGLES
1 - Ashley Jakupcin (BGSU) def. Sophie Quist 2-6, 6-2, 6-3
2 - Samantha Kintzel (BGSU) def. Haly Calderwood 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
3 - Kelsey Jakupcin (BGSU) def. Jennifer Pollack 6-2, 6-3
4 - Christine Stromberg (BSU) def. Jenna Nussbaum 6-2, 7-6 (2)
5 - Emma Retter (BSU) def. Katia Babina 6-1, 6-2
6 - Stefanie Menoff (BGSU) def. Katherine Rist 6-2, 6-1
# - Libby Harrison (BGSU) def. Rachel Surowiec 8-2
DOUBLES
1 - K. Jakupcin/Nussbaum (BGSU) def. Calderwood/Quist 8-6
2 - Pollack/Stromberg (BSU) def. Menoff/Volle 8-5
3 - A. Jakupcin/Kintzel (BGSU) def. Farrar/Askerko 8-4
# not included in overall match scoring
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