LAKE CHARLES—McNeese women's tennis won five of six singles matches on its way to a 6-1 Southland Conference victory over Central Arkansas Tuesday.
"Today was a good day for us," said head coach
Helena Besovic. "We fought hard and played with a lot of confidence. UCA is a talented team and this is a great win for us. It sets us up for the upcoming matches on the road this week."
After McNeese took a 1-0 lead following doubles play in which the Cowgirls took two out of three matches, McNeese cruised to their seventh overall win of the season to improve to 7-5 and 3-1 in conference action.
The no. 2 doubles duo of
Julia Kral and
Hannah Brett picked up the first doubles victory with an 8-2 win over UCA's Kelsey Williams and Allison Murphy. After UCA's Bianca Sturkelj and Kristina Horsikyan defeated McNeese's
Sarah Jurakova and
Vivien Borbely in a tie-breaker 8-7 (4), the doubles point was clinched with an 8-3 win by the Cowgirls' no. 1 singles team comprised of
Klaudia Gawlik and
Anastasija Trubich defeated Nataly Yoo and Cassidy Crawford.
McNeese won four singles matches in straight sets, clinching the overall match with a Jurakova 6-1, 6-4) win over Crawford at the no. 5 singles.
Also picking up straight set wins was Kral at no. 2, Brett at no. 3 and Trubich at no. 6. Borbely picked up a tiebreaker win 6-2, 4-6 (10-6) over Murphy at no. 4. Gawlik retired at the no. 1 singles after the first set due to an illness.
"I think that we still haven't reached our full potential as a team and that we have so much more to give and prove, which is a very exciting thing. We work very hard and our goal is to become better with every match that we play," said Besovic.
McNeese will hit the road with contests at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Friday, March 27 at 5 p.m. followed by a match at Incarnate Word on Sunday, March 29 at 11 a.m.
