GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— The Colorado Mesa University women's tennis team will continue their season, spending their Easter Weekend on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu.
The Mavericks, 10-12 on the season, will begin the stretch on Saturday night taking on the nation's 27
th-ranked Hawai'i Pacific University Sharks. The Mavs will then play Hawai'i Hilo in a neutral-site match on Saturday before wrapping up the trip with another neutral-site encounter against Point Loma Nazarene on Monday.
Last Times Out
The Mavericks split two matches last weekend in Colorado Springs, defeating the University of the Ozarks from Arkansas by a 7-0 score last Friday (Mar. 27) before dropping a 4-3 heart-breaker to Colorado College last Saturday (Mar. 28).
Jade Brilhante and
Jane Steur both went 2-0 in singles play.
The Mavs' No. 2 and 3 doubles teams of
Catalina Ballon/
Delia Maier and Valentina Gonzales/
Sophie Hartman also went 2-0.
In the Friday, Mar. 27 win over the University of the Ozarks, the Mavs dropped just five total games in a dominating effort.
Against,
CC last Saturday (Mar. 28), the Mavs lost three 3-set singles matches against the Tigers.
Century Mark
Maverick senior
Delia Maier recorded her 100
th career victory last Saturday as she and partner
Catalina Ballon won their No. 2 doubles match over Colorado College. Maier now has 53 career doubles victories and 47 singles wins.
She is just the 15
th Maverick to ever reach the 100-win mark.
On the verge of 20
Catalina Ballon and
Delia Maier now have a 19-8 doubles record this season and are just one win shy of becoming the first Maverick players to reach the 20-win mark in a season since the Sera sisters— Kaitlan and Keleen in 2011-12.
One milestone down, another nearing
Maverick senior
Delia Maier went 3-1 with doubles partner
Catalina Ballon during the trip to California and in the process reached and surpassed the 50-win milestone for doubles. Maier now has 51 doubles victories to her credit.
She could also reach the 100 overall win milestone on Saturday and will enter the trip to Colorado Springs with 97 total victories, including 46 singles wins.
Maier and Ballon have put together an impressive 17-9 doubles record this year, including a 12-8 dual record.
Island First
The Mavericks trip to Hawai'i will be their first such trip in program history.
It will also be the seventh state that the Mavs have played in this spring and the eighth this year. The Mavs will add another state to that list (Utah) next week.
Hometown Match-up
Although she will be playing on a different island, Maverick senior
Jade Brilhante will be playing against her hometown college Hawai'i Hilo on Sunday. CMU has been Brilhante's college home for the past two years after spending time at Utah State and Northern Arizona previously.
Brilhante enters the trip home riding a 4-match winning streak in singles and has won five of her last No. 3 encounters.
Know Your Foes (Men)
Hawai'i Pacific (Saturday – 10 p.m. MDT/6 p.m. HST)
The Sharks are 12-4 after falling 5-2 on Friday to Point Loma. They had won their previous three and 11 of their previous 12.
They are ranked 27
th as a team in this week's ITA NCAA Division II Team Rankings and hold the No. 1 spot in the PacWest Rankings, released on Wednesday prior to their loss to the third-ranked Sea Lions.
Evi Roobol is ranked 58
th in the ITA's National Singles Rankings.
She and Annika Hakovirta are ranked 15
th nationally in doubles.
Hawai'i Hilo (Sunday – 4:30 p.m. MDT/12:30 p.m. HST)
The Vulcans are 4-8 entering a Saturday afternoon match against Point Loma.
They have won their last two after losing their previous five.
Johanna Roggenkamp plays at No. 1 singles and has a 5-6 record in that flight and a 5-7 overall record. Victoria Ricuarte-Cabas, who is 6-4, and Pia Starnecker, who is 6-5, have the team's best records while Marie Cordonnier has won her last four to raise her record to 5-4.
Kaiya Ideta and Lehua Jordan are 6-4 in doubles and play consistently at No. 3. Ricuarte-Cabas and Anna Takahashi are 4-3 at No. 2 doubles.
The Vulcans are ninth in this week's PacWest rankings.
Point Loma Nazarene (Monday - 3:45 p.m. MDT/11:45 a.m. HST)
The Sea Lions are 12-3 after picking up a key 5-2 win over Hawai'i Pacific on Friday.
They had a 10-match winning streak from Feb. 14-Mar. 24 before falling 4-3 to Azusa Pacific on Mar. 28.
Four different Sea Linos have double-figure singles wins totals, led by Zoe Moley, who is 13-2. She has won 12 straight playing mostly at the No. 5 and 6 spots.
Perla Conde Vendrell, Emely Valencia Andrejeva and Melissa Zirkle all have 11 wins.
Alina Kumpfer is ranked 44
th in the country and has a 9-4 record in the top flight.
Alina Kumpfer and Conde Vendrell are 9-1 at Ho. 2 doubles and have won seven straight. Moley and Zirkle are 9-2 at No. 3 doubles while Valencia Andrejeva and Anna Pallencaoe are 7-3 in the top flight.
The Sea Lions have won the doubles point in each of their last five duals, dropping just one match in that time.
Series Histories
The Mavs' only previous match-up against Hawai'i Pacific was on May 16, 2012 at the NCAA Division II National Tournament in Louisville, Kentucky. The Sharks won that match 5-0.
The Mavs are 1-4 against the Hawai'i Hilo Vulcans, winning the last meeting on Apr. 16, 2025 at the PacWest Tournament in Surprise, Arizona. All five previous matches have been on neutral courts.
The Mavs are also 0-5 against Point Loma. The first four of those match-ups were played in San Diego. The Mavs fell to the Sea Lions by a 4-0 score in the PacWest Tournament last year.
Up Next
The Maverick women will be back on the road again next Saturday (Apr. 11) playing two matches at NCAA Division I Utah Tech in St. George, Utah. The Mavs and Trailblazers will play at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The Mavs are treating the second leg of that doubleheader as an exhibition.
