PUEBLO, Colo.— The Colorado Mesa University Women's Tennis team won all but two matches as they claimed a decisive 6-1 non-conference win over host CSU-Pueblo on Saturday morning here at Pueblo East High School.
The Mavericks, now 5-13 on the year, won a No. 2 doubles match and four of the five singles matches and took advantage of a pair of defaults as the ThunderWolves (1-17) fielded a lineup of just five players.
In doubles,
Georgia Hansen and
Maike Waldburger were dominant in a 6-1 No. 2 doubles match against the ThunderWolves' Sarah Megilligan and Emily Sporston.
In singles,
Emily Beckley,
Rebecca Osterberg, Hansen and
Taylor Hershey all won their matches in straight sets. Hershey had the largest margin of victory, winning her No. 5 match against Katherine Ambrose, 6-1, 6-0. The victory was her 49
th singles triumph of her career.
CSU-Pueblo's lone point came at No. 1 singles as Matthews dropped the opening set before taking a 7-5 second-set tie-breaker and then a 10-6 decision in the extended third-set tiebreaker.
The Mavericks will be on the Front Range next week playing at Division I Northern Colorado on Thursday before facing Tarleton State in a neutral-site encounter in Pueblo on Friday. They then play at Colorado College later that afternoon before returning home to the Elliott Tennis Center for their final four matches of the campaign, including two at the Apr. 26-27 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Tournament.
They will begin that stretch on Apr. 19 against the ThunderWolves in a re-scheduled RMAC tilt.
