BALTIMORE- The UMBC women's tennis team won its third
consecutive match, winning five of six singles matches to defeat
visiting Liberty, 5-2, in the first home match of the year
played at the UMBC Tennis Complex.
UMBC got over the .500 mark and improved to 6-5 on the campaign,
while the Flames are playing a tough slate and fell to
1-8. Liberty was ranked ahead of UMBC in the Atlantic
region entering the 2012 campaign.
"As unhappy as I was with the doubles point getting away from us
I was equally as happy with the way the women stepped up for the
singles," head coach Rob Hubbard said. "They showed a lot of
character today."
Liberty captured the doubles point, as their No. 3 tandem
of Rebekah Jenkins/Jessie Boda rallied to edge UMBC juniors Heidi
Danielsson (Jonkoping, Sweden) and Kyri Hadji (West
Sunshine, Australia), 9-7.
Buoyed by an enthusiastic home crowd, the Retrievers captured
the first three singles matches to take a 3-1 lead. No. 1 sophomore
Kim
Berghaus (Offenbach, Germany) and No. 2 grad.
student Shalini Sahoo
(New Dehli, Indi) won in straight sets, while No. 3 senior Carmen Jackman
(Silver Spring, Md./Blake) overcame Liberty's Brittany
Yang, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.
Stange-Jonsson clinched the match for the Retrievers, defeating
Annisha Domenech, 6-4, 6-3. Freshman Isabel
Aldunate added an insurance point, rallying for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
victory over Nicola Wellman at the No. 4 position.
UMBC travels to South Carolina this weekend for
matches vs. South Carolina-Upstate and Longwood.
