Northwestern
Kentucky
No. 5 Northwestern Beats No. 14 Kentucky, 4-1
1/30/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Jan. 30, 2005
EVANSTON, Ill. - Fifth-ranked Northwestern defeated a top-20 opponent for the second time in as many days with a 4-1 win over 14th-ranked Kentucky Sunday afternoon in College Station, Texas. The Wildcats improve to 3-0 on the year.
Northwestern remains perfect in doubles competition on the season, sweeping the three matches. Only the top-four singles players finished competition, however, as inclement weather wiped out the final two matches. Graduate student Valerie Vladea (Tiffin, Iowa/Burlington Central) was one of three `Cats to post wins in both singles and doubles.
Sophomore Alexis Prousis (Lake Forest, Ill./Lake Forest) and senior Kristi Roemer (Piedmont, Calif./Piedmont) posted one of the biggest victories on the day, upsetting the nation's 11th-ranked duo Coventry and Schwenk 8-5
Vladea teamed with junior Jamie Peisel (Savannah, Ga./Savannah Country Day) to claim their doubles match 8-2, while the top-ranked tandem of Audra Cohen (Plantation, Fla./St. Thomas Aquinas) and Cristelle Grier (Epsom, England/Putney) defeated sixth-ranked Aibika Kalsarieva and Sarah Foster 9-8.
Top-ranked Grier and fourth-ranked Grier each won their singles matches as well, beating seventh-ranked Kalsarieva and 30th-ranked Foster, respectively.
Vladea proved to have Schwenk's number in singles action as well, winning 6-4, 6-2.
Peisel and freshman Alexis Conill (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla/Cardinal Gibbons) were both unable to finish their singles matches at the No. 5 and No. 6 positions, respectively, due to inclement weather.
The Wildcats are next in action at the National Indoor Championship, hosted by Wisconsin, Thursday through Monday, Feb. 3-6.
Singles
No. 1 - Audra Cohen (NU) def. Aibika Kalsarieva (UK), 6-3, 6-3
No. 2 - Cristelle Grier (NU) def. Sarah Foster (UK), 6-4, 6-0
No. 3 - Kim Coventry (UK) def. Alexis Prousis (NU), 0-6, 6-1, 6-4
No. 4 - Valerie Vladea (NU) def. Joelle Schwenk (UK), 6-4, 6-2
No. 5 - Jamie Peisel (NU) tied w/ Lara Maurer (UK), 5-5 (inclement weather)
No. 6 - Alexis Conill (NU) leading Danielle Petrisko (UK), 4-3 (inclement weather)
Doubles
No. 1 - Cohen/Grier (NU) def. Foster/Kalsarieva (UK), 9-7
No. 2 - Prousis/Roemer (NU) def. Coventry/Schwenk (UK), 8-5
No. 3 - Peisel/Vladea (NU) def. Maurer/Simpson (UK), 8-2
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