FRESNO, Calif.— The Colorado Mesa University women's tennis team claimed their first Pacific West Conference victory of the season over Holy Names University but could not duplicate the effort later in the day as they fell to the Academy of Art to split a pair of matches on Saturday here at the Fresno State University Tennis Courts.
The split left the Mavericks 6-9 on the season, including a 1-4 mark against fellow PacWest foes.
The Mavericks defeated Holy Names, 5-1 and were beaten 6-1 by the Urban Knights.
Holy Names is now 1-9 this season while the Academy of Art improved to 5-4.
Issy Coman led the Mavericks with two singles wins in the second flight.
The Mavericks and Hawks played their singles matches first and as the Mavs won five of the six, the doubles matches were not played in the essence of time.
Coman was a 6-1, 6-4 winner over Romito Carlotta and clinched the dual after
Macy Richards,
Makenna Livingston and
Paige Furin had put up the Mavs' earlier points.
Livingston defeated Deepalakshmi Varnaraja, 6-0, 6-2 in the top flight after Richards finished off Ella Lavender by the same margin at No. 3 singles. Furin was an even bigger, 6-0, 6-1 winner over Ana Hoerter at No. 6 singles.
Julianna Campos also claimed a win at No. 5 singles, taking out Ana Rios in a tight, 3-set thriller. She won 7-6 (8-6), 4-6, 1-0 (10-6).
In the evening encounter, Coman won by retirement over Maria Casucci. She and Richards also won 6-3 at No. 2 doubles over Julia Ortega and Casucci.
The Urban Knights took the first and third doubles matches and then claimed four of their five singles victories in straight sets.
The No. 1 match between the Urban Knights' Jessica Plazas, ranked seventh in the West Region at the end of the fall season, and CMU's
Makenna Livingston, ranked tenth, went to three sets. Livingston won the opening set, 6-3 but dropped the second, 6-2. Plazas then edged her 10-8 in the super tie-breaker.
The Mavs will play two more PacWest foes on Sunday facing Fresno Pacific and Dominican.
