LOS ANGELES - The UC Santa Cruz women's tennis team almost rallied from a dual match deficit, but two wild tie-breaker matches at singles went to hosts Occidental, allowing the Tigers to hold off the Banana Slugs 5-4 on Saturday morning.

Sara Beckman and Natalie Sprenger won their third doubles match of the weekend 8-4, but the other two went to Occidental, giving the Tigers a 2-1 lead early.

In singles, Julia Chiaradia Azzi and Sophia Nguyen both won in straight sets to tie the match at 3 wins apiece. Tanner Rowland won at No. 3 singles with a 5-7, 6-0, 7-5 comeback victory to put UC Santa Cruz up 4-3. However, both the last two singles matches saw the Tigers win in three sets, ending an entertaining day of Division III tennis with the hosts surviving.

UC Santa Cruz (5-5) will close the regular season with three games against higher Division schools, starting Saturday April 9th at Division II Dominican.

Results

Singles

No. 1	Andei Fukushige (OC) defeats Sara Beckman (UCSC) 5-7, 6-0, 6-2
No. 2	Sarah Fleming (OC) defeats Natalie Sprenger (UCSC) 6-2, 6-0
No. 3	Tanner Rowland (UCSC) defeats Alexis Matabuena (OC) 5-7, 6-0, 7-5
No. 4	Julia Azzi (UCSC) defeats Xavi Campbell (OC) 6-4, 6-2
No. 5	Sophia Nguyen (UCSC) defeats Mathilde Depery (OC) 6-2, 7-6
No. 6	Katie Wolber (OC) defeats Daniela Christian (UCSC) 2-6, 6-2, 7-6(3)

 

Doubles

No. 1	N. Sprenger/S. Beckman (UCSC) defeat S. Fleming/A. Fukushige 8-4
No. 2	D. Edson/A. Matabuena (OC) defeat Ines Pelvang/T. Rowland 8-6
No. 3	E. Silber/X. Campbell (OC) defeat Jolie Seemayer/S. Nguyen 8-2