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No. 4 Wildcats Sweep Huskies, 7-0
3/21/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
March 21, 2006
SEATTLE -- Northwestern's fourth-ranked women's tennis team did not drop a single match en route to a 7-0 win over Washington Tuesday at the Los Angeles Tennis Center. The Wildcats recorded their third sweep of the season with the win and freshman Georgia Rose (Mettawa, Ill./North Shore Country Day) took her 16th-straight singles victory with a win at No. 3 singles.
The Wildcats' No. 3 doubles team of Jamie Peisel (Savannah, Ga./Savannah Country Day) and Nazlie Ghazal (Temecula, Calif./Chaparral) was the first to strike for Northwestern as the two didn't drop a game to the Huskies' Stephanie Svanfeldt and Melinda Wong and won 8-0.
Northwestern's seventh-ranked doubles team of Cristelle Grier (Epsom, England/Putney) and Alexis Prousis (Lake Forest, Ill./Lake Forest) then clinched the doubles point for the 'Cats when they topped Washington's 38th-ranked team of Dinka Hadzic and Victoria Brymer, 8-2, at No. 1 singles.
Rose and Feriel Esseghir (Sarasota, Fla./Brickhouse Academy) carried out the doubles sweep for the 'Cats by outlasting Tara Simpson and Monika Kolbovic at No. 2 doubles, 8-6. With the win, the duo improves to 7-0 in dual matches.
The Wildcats took the momentum from the doubles matches and ran with it.
No. 36 Rose won her 16th-consecutive singles match by rolling past Simpson at No. 3 singles 6-1, 6-1. She boasts a team-best dual record of 12-0.
Esseghir then beat Wong at No. 5 singles 6-0, 6-2, to give the Wildcats a 3-0 lead.
Grier, the nation's ninth-ranked singles player, quickly clinched the match for Northwestern with her sixth win of the year at No. 1 singles. She topped Washington's 98th-ranked Hadzic 6-3, 6-2, securing the Wildcats' ninth win of the season.
No. 26 Prousis kept the winning theme alive for the 'Cats when she recorded her team-high 25th singles win. Prousis beat Brymer at No. 2 singles 6-2, 6-3.
Peisel was the only Wildcat to go to a third set on the day, but she pulled out the win over Svanfeldt at No. 4 singles. After dropping the first set, Peisel stormed back with a win in the second set and in the third-set tiebreaker. She won the match 4-6, 6-2, 1-0 (8).
Washington's Kolbovic defaulted at No. 6 singles, giving Ghazal the win and Northwestern the 7-0 sweep.
With the win, the Wildcats improve to 9-3 on the season.
Northwestern returns to action at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 25 when the Wildcats travel to East Lansing, Mich., to face conference foe Michigan State.
Washington Women's Tennis vs. Northwestern 3/21/06 - Los Angeles Tennis Center No. 4 Northwestern 7, Washington 0Doubles 1) (7) Grier/Prousis (NW) def. (38) Hadzic/Brymer (UW), 8-2 2) Rose/Esseghir (NW) def. Simpson/Kolbovic (UW), 8-6 3) Peisel/Ghazal (NW) def. Svanfeldt/Wong (UW), 8-0 Order of finish: 3, 1, 2
Singles 1) (9) Cristelle Grier (NW) def. (98) Dinka Hadzic (UW), 6-3, 6-2 2) (26) Alexis Prousis (NW) def. Victoria Brymer (UW), 6-2, 6-3 3) (36) Georgia Rose (NW) def. Tara Simpson (UW), 6-1, 6-1 4) Jamie Peisel (NW) def. Stephanie Svanfeldt (UW), 4-6, 6-2, 1-0 (8) 5) Feriel Esseghir (NW) def. Melinda Wong (UW), 6-0, 6-2 6) Nazlie Ghazal (NW) def. Monika Kolbovic (UW), default Order of finish: 3, 5, 1, 2, 4
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