LA MIRADA, Calif.— The Colorado Mesa University Women's Tennis team claimed a thrilling 4-2 win at Biola University to snap a 9-match slide and win for the first time this spring on Monday afternoon here at the Biola Tennis Center.
The Mavericks, now 4-11, won two of the three doubles matches to take that point and then came from a 2-1 deficit to win each of the final three completed singles matches to claim the victory.
The decisive match came in a third-set tiebreaker as
Rebecca Osterberg came from a set down to defeat Tinisee Kandakai at No. 3 singles. Osterberg dropped the first set in 7-5 tie-breaker before winning the second, 6-2. She then took the third set tie-breaker, 7-3.
The doubles point was just as thrilling as
Georgia Hansen and
Maike Waldburger closed out a No. 2 doubles win over Anna Hartmann and Lily Waterhouse with a 7-3 tie-breaking win, sealed by a Hansen volley on match point.
Earlier,
Kristen Kirby and
Emily Beckley had won at No. 1 doubles, 6-3 over Esther Lee and Lauren Lee.
The Eagles (5-6) then came back with singles wins in the fourth and first flights before Beckley evened the score at 2 with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Ines Diaz at No. 2 singles.
Taylor Hershey then finished off a 6-4, 6-0 win over Waterhouse at No. 5 singles before Osterberg's come-from-behind win clinched the Mavericks' victory.
Waldburger was also leading 2-0 in the third set of her No. 6 singles match over Allison Torres after she had rallied for a second-set tiebreaker win after losing the first set in a tiebreaker. That match went unfinished to allow the Maverick and Eagle men to start their match.
The Mavericks will close out their spring break stint in Southern California on Tuesday afternoon in San Diego when they take on 20
th-ranked Point Loma Nazarene.
