Drayton, Miller are Double Winners in Saturday Action at UC

Saturday, October 11

Cincinnati, OH

9:00 AM

Bowling Green State University

UC Invitational

Megan Miller - BGSU Invitational - Sept 19 2014 - MJC photo

Freshman Megan Miller won a pair of Saturday matches

Photo by: BGSU Strategic Communications

October 11, 2014 | Women's Tennis

BGSU concludes play in the two-day invite

By: CINCINNATI, Ohio (BGSU Athletic Communications)

Hannah Drayton and Megan Miller each won a pair of matches on Saturday (Oct. 11), as the Bowling Green State University tennis team concluded play at the UC Invitational. The two-day, four-team event was hosted by the University of Cincinnati.

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Ball State and Xavier rounded out the four-team field for the invite, which utilized a hidden-dual format.

Drayton, a sophomore, and Miller, a freshman, teamed up for a doubles win over a Xavier team at the second flight. The Drayton/Miller combo won their Saturday match by an 8-5 score and finished the weekend with a 2-1 doubles record.

"We started out very slow on all three courts of doubles today," said BGSU head coach Olga Elkin. "We were able to pick it up as the matches went on, but at this level we can't afford to start slow.

"We weren't doing the things we had worked on in practice, and were making too many errors and that really hurt us. After doubles, we played two singles matches each, and that was the best I have seen all of those girls play all season."

In singles play, Drayton captured a straight-sets win over Katya Bure at the third flight, losing a total of only four games. She won a 6-3 opening set, then dropped just one game en route to a second-set triumph.

Miller downed BSU's Ashlyn Rang in two narrow sets in fifth-flight action. The Falcon freshman pulled out a 6-4 opening set, then topped Rang in a 7-5 second set to win the match.

BGSU's other competitors at UC included sophomore Harley Hutchison and freshman Maddy Adams at the top doubles flight, and soph Brittany Plaszewski and freshman Emily Witt at flight number three. In singles play, Adams competed at the top flight, extending two of her three weekend matches to a third-set 10-point tiebreaker, while Drayton competed at the second flight for one match and the third flight for the other two.

Hutchison played at the second flight for two weekend matches and at the third flight for the other. Plaszewski was BGSU's fourth-flight representative, while Miller played at the fifth flight and Witt at the sixth all weekend.

"Overall, I was happy with the weekend and the fall season," said Elkin. "We didn't get the results we wanted, both this weekend and during the fall as a whole, but we made huge improvements.

"This weekend we had a ton of very close matches and also had a lot of third-set tiebreakers. A month and a half ago, when we played these same teams, we were getting blown off the court and no one was having close matches.The improvement each girl has made throughout the season was very noticeable this weekend in every match they played, and that is huge for us."

The UC Invitational concludes BGSU's fall schedule. The Falcons' next scheduled competition is Jan. 23, when BG will face Detroit in dual-match action at the Perrysburg Tennis Center.