Anderson wins sixth straight
The Utah State women’s tennis team won its match against Idaho State 6-1 on Monday to finish off its regular season with a .500 record.
The Aggies showed their dominance over the Bengals as all three of the doubles matches were won 8-2 by Utah State.
At No. 1 doubles Lindsey Bennion and Carolyn Stephens jumped out to a 7-0 lead in their match while at No. 2 Lauren Monson and Jill Smith were up 3-0 early.
“We’ve been playing a lot of matches lately and I thought it was going to be tough,” Utah State Head Coach Christian Wright said. “[The girls] have been doing what we’ve been talking about and because of it we won a couple games early when we came on strong.”
In singles action, Utah State continued its dominance as the Ags won all but one of the matches.
Smith lost in a close first set after serving for the set twice and then being up 3-1 in the tiebreaker before losing 7-5.
In the second it was back and forth for the first half of the set.
Smith was up 3-2 but then her opponent broke her serve to go up 4-3 and Idaho State went on to win 6-4.
“Jill’s been sick,” Wright said. “She’s fighting hard but she doesn’t want to come out. It’s just a head cold but she’s sucking wind pretty bad.”
In the rest of the singles matches the Ags were dominate to say the least. At No. 4 and No. 5 singles, Courtney Anderson and Andrea Barker both won 6-0, 6-0. For Anderson this was her sixth-straight singles win.
Bennion won her No. 1 singles match 6-2, 6-3 and Stephens won her No. 2 match 6-1, 6-4. Lauren Monson won her No. 6 match 6-2, 6-1 to give the Aggies their sixth point of the match.
On Thursday the Aggies will take on Cal State Fullerton at the Big West Conference tournament in Indian Wells, Calif.
If the Aggies win they will take on the No. 1 seeded Pacific Tigers on Friday.
“We match up well with Fullerton,” Wright said. “I know we’re in that ballpark.
“If we play well we can beat any team in the conference and if we only play all right then we can still beat most of the other teams in our conference.”
-krn@cc.usu.edu
Utah State´s Courtney Andrerson goes for the ball in a match against Hawai´i earlier this season. (Photo by John Zsiray)