MUNCIE, Ind. — The Ball State girls’s tennis workforce (7-6, 0-2 MAC) dropped a slim 4-3 choice to the University of Massachusetts (12-3, 4-0 MAC) on Sunday afternoon on the Foster Adams Tennis Complex and Bill Richards Tennis Courts.
Ball State opened their match towards UMass with a battle for the doubles level. The Cardinals’ No. 3 duo, Sydney Hrehor and Asia Fontana, dominated their set 6–1 to give BSU the early edge. Tension rose as the highest two courts remained neck-and-neck; although UMass fought again to stage the rating at No. 2, Ball State’s No. 1 tandem, Isabel Tanjuatco and Sarah Shahbaz, held their serve on a 40–30 match level to clinch the opening level for the Cardinals.
UMass mounted an early comeback in singles play, taking courts two, three, and one regardless of a hard-fought effort from the Cardinals. While Alana Bristow and Tanjuatco each battled via intense second-set tiebreakers, the Minutewomen finally secured a 3-1 lead. With solely three courts remaining and the primary units already misplaced, the Cardinals confronted a must-win state of affairs, needing to push each remaining match into additional units to keep alive.
On court docket No. 5, Jemima Williams-Phillips battled via a high-stakes second-set tiebreaker to drive a 3rd body. However, she finally fell to Madara Markevica 7-5, 7-6 (0), clinching the decisive fourth level and the match victory for the Minutewomen.
Despite the general loss, the Cardinals secured two factors via gritty particular person performances. At the No. 6 place, Gabriella Barrera defeated Renata Farima in a grueling three-set match, whereas Fontana earned a hard-fought victory in a three-frame thriller towards UMass’s No. 4 singles participant, Chang Ao.
The Ball State girls’s tennis workforce continues Mid-American Conference play this Friday at Bowling Green, with the match scheduled for 1 p.m. ET.
Ball State opened their match towards UMass with a battle for the doubles level. The Cardinals’ No. 3 duo, Sydney Hrehor and Asia Fontana, dominated their set 6–1 to give BSU the early edge. Tension rose as the highest two courts remained neck-and-neck; although UMass fought again to stage the rating at No. 2, Ball State’s No. 1 tandem, Isabel Tanjuatco and Sarah Shahbaz, held their serve on a 40–30 match level to clinch the opening level for the Cardinals.
UMass mounted an early comeback in singles play, taking courts two, three, and one regardless of a hard-fought effort from the Cardinals. While Alana Bristow and Tanjuatco each battled via intense second-set tiebreakers, the Minutewomen finally secured a 3-1 lead. With solely three courts remaining and the primary units already misplaced, the Cardinals confronted a must-win state of affairs, needing to push each remaining match into additional units to keep alive.
On court docket No. 5, Jemima Williams-Phillips battled via a high-stakes second-set tiebreaker to drive a 3rd body. However, she finally fell to Madara Markevica 7-5, 7-6 (0), clinching the decisive fourth level and the match victory for the Minutewomen.
Despite the general loss, the Cardinals secured two factors via gritty particular person performances. At the No. 6 place, Gabriella Barrera defeated Renata Farima in a grueling three-set match, whereas Fontana earned a hard-fought victory in a three-frame thriller towards UMass’s No. 4 singles participant, Chang Ao.
The Ball State girls’s tennis workforce continues Mid-American Conference play this Friday at Bowling Green, with the match scheduled for 1 p.m. ET.