March 26, 2008

Pacific Lutheran Ends California Trip With 8-1 Win

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - The Pacific Lutheran women's tennis team picked up a win in the final match of its spring break trip to California, defeating the the California Lutheran University Regals, 8-1, in a contest played Wednesday on the CLU campus courts.

The Lutes, who improved to 6-7 with the victory, won two of their three matches in California. Another match against Vanguard was canceled.

Cal Lutheran's only win came at No. 1 singles where Suz Nomura beat Erika Feltus in a super-tiebreaker, 6-2, 2-6, 10-6.

Singles winners for Pacific Lutheran were Liz Currey, Ashley Coats, Ashley Brooks, Esther Ham and Morgan Jones. The doubles teams of Feltus and Coats, Currey and Brooks and Ham and Jones also won their matches.

PLU flies back to the Pacific Northwest and gets back to Northwest Conference action on Friday when it hosts George Fox at 4 p.m.

Doubles
#1 Feltus/Coats (PLU) def. Nomura/Dehmer (CLU) 8-5
#2 Currey/Brooks (PLU) def. Gormley/Aguinaldo (CLU) 8-1
#3 Ham/Emily Starr (PLU) def. Olmstead/Ellison (CLU) 8-4

Singles
#1 Suz Nomura (CLU) def. Erika Feltus (PLU) 6-2, 2-6, 10-6
#2 Liz Currey (PLU) def. Kate Dehmer (CLU) 7-5, 6-2
#3 Ashley Cook (PLU) def. Katie Downey (CLU) 6-0, 6-1
#4 Ashley Brooks (PLU) def. Lacey Gormley (CLU) 6-3, 6-1
#5 Esther Ham (PLU) def. Eila Olmstead (CLU) 6-4, 6-4
#6 Morgan Jones (PLU) def. Sam Aguinaldo (CLU) 6-3, 6-1

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