PARK FOREST, Ill. -- The Purdue University Northwest women's tennis team dropped a 7-0 decision to visiting Missouri-St. Louis at the Park Forest Tennis and Health Club Saturday.
Missouri-St. Louis started the match sweeping doubles competition to take the early lead. Sophomore Lena van Bergen and freshman Patricia Dizon (Arlington Heights, Ill./St. Viator) won two games at No. 1 doubles but Marina Prediger and Leticia Lunge picked up the victory, 6-2.
Junior Carolina Yepez (Guayaquil, Ecuador) and senior Cynthia Basu-Chavez (Merrillville, Ind./Merrillville) picked up a pair of games at No. 3 doubles but were not able to come away with the victory.
Freshman Kelli Canul (Munster, Ind./Munster) came up short in winning the first set at No. 6 singles but UMSL's Biance Buie won the match, 7-5, 6-1. van Bergen won three games in the first set and a trio in the second at No. 1 singles but Missouri St. Louis's Salome Bleuler won the match, 6-3, 6-3.
Dizon won three games in the first set of No. 2 singles but only able to win one in the second as Marina Prediger won the match, 6-3, 6-1. Freshman Pia Schmedding (Hamburg, Germany) fought back and was victorious in three games in the second set but UMSL's Leticia Lunge won the match, 6-0, 6-3.
Basu-Chavez was able to win two games at No. 5 singles but Clara Lopez-Bueno picked up the victory, 6-2, 6-0.
PNW returns to action Saturday, February 23 as the Pride host Olivet Nazarene at the Park Forest Tennis and Health Club.
02/16/2019
Park Forest, Ill. (Park Forest Tennis and Health Club)
UMSL 7, PNW 0
SINGLES -- 1. Salome Bleuler (UMSLW) def. Lena van Bergen (PNWWT) 6-3, 6-3; 2. Marina Prediger (UMSLW) def. Patricia Dizon (PNWWT) 6-3, 6-1; 3. Odette Beagrie (UMSLW) def. Carolina Yepez (PNWWT) 6-0, 6-0; 4. Leticia Lunge (UMSLW) def. Pia Schmedding (PNWWT) 6-0, 6-3; 5. Clara Lopez Bueno (UMSLW) def. Cynthia Basu-Chavez (PNWWT) 6-2, 6-0; 6. Bianca Buie (UMSLW) def. Kelli Canul (PNWWT) 7-5, 6-1.
DOUBLES -- 1. Prediger/Lunge (UMSLW) def. van Bergen/Dizon (PNWWT) 6-2; 2. Bleuler/Beagrie (UMSLW) def. Schmedding/Castiglioni (PNWWT) 6-0; 3. Lopez Bueno/Buie (UMSLW) def. Yepez/Basu-Chavez (PNWWT) 6-2.
