Gardner-Webb Runs Past Longwood, 6-1, for Key Big South Win on Saturday
March 23, 2014 | Women's Tennis
Farmville, Va. - A day after falling short at Liberty, Gardner-Webb's women's tennis team got five singles wins to bounce back and pick up a 6-1 win at Longwood in Big South action on Saturday.
GWU (9-8, 2-4 Big South) got off to a great start, winning the opening doubles point thanks to a clincher from the freshman combo of Teodora Stanciu and Mary Walker Mixon. The pair of Runnin' Bulldog rookies knocked off the Lancers' Mason Thomas / Bethany Law tandem, 8-6, at No. 3 doubles.
Gardner-Webb's Jenny Lunde / Rokia Sacko pairing cruised to an 8-0 win at No. 2 doubles over Paloma Alatorre / Anna Palak. Longwood won at No. 1 doubles, 8-6, as Malin Allgurin / Sarah Moomau outlasted Yasmin Doost / Ronia Hutterli.
Doost (Bray, Maidenhead, England) prevailed at No. 1 singles in the only singles match to last three sets. After dropping the first set against Allgurin, Doost was dominant, ultimately scoring a 4-6, 6-0, 6-0 triumph to give the Runnin' Bulldogs a point from atop the lineup.
At No. 2 singles, senior Jenny Lunde (Oslo, Norway) prevailed, outlasting Alatorre by a 6-2, 6-4 margin. Another senior, Ronia Hutterli (Duebendorf, Switzerland) picked up a win for the Runnin' Bulldogs, knocking off Moomau 7-5, 6-1 at No. 3 singles.
Longwood (2-6, 1-4 Big South) got a 6-3, 6-4 win from Pelak at the No. 4 singles spot, but Gardner-Webb's Rokia Sacko (Montreal, Canada) and Catherine White (Rock Hill, S.C.) scored 6-3, 6-4 and 6-2, 6-2 wins at the No. 5 and No. 6 singles, respectively.
Saturday's Big South win for GWU, the first since a road win at Presbyterian on February 19, marks the Runnin' Bulldogs' final road match of the season.
Gardner-Webb opens a three-match home streak to end the regular season on Wednesday, March 26, hosting the Winthrop Eagles in a 2:00 p.m. match at the Webb Tennis Complex.
| Box Score: GWU 6, Longwood 1 |
