SAN ANTONIO - No. 24 Trinity University Women's Tennis won its third and fourth straight matches Saturday with a doubleheader sweep over Whitman College (WA), 7-2, and Schreiner University, 9-0, the latter of which in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play.
The Tigers (8-5, 2-0 SCAC) put together a quality performance against the Blues of the Pacific Northwest, including a near-sweep of doubles play as Olivia Kim (Phoenix, Ariz. / Desert Mountain) and Ruth Hill (Abilene, Texas / Abilene) led-off with a strong 8-4 output in line two. The line-one squad of Megan Flores (Houston, Texas / Clear Lake) and Cate Cushing (Colleyville, Texas / Colleyville Heritage) were just a tiebreaker (7-4) away from upsetting the nation's 12th-ranked duo. Sam Miller (Georgetown, Texas / Georgetown) and Ellie Hughes (Austin, Texas / Vandegrift) notched the 2-1 doubles advantage with an 8-6 tiebreaker victory in line three.
Lines two through six of singles action all scored victories en route to the 7-2 tally in the early match. Elodie Richard (Allen, Texas / Allen) blew through her sixth-line matchup with a straight-sets suthout, followed by Hill's 6-1, 6-2 victory in the third slot. Flores retrieved the clinching point in line four, 6-4, 7-5, while the match rounded out with a pair of bounce-back performances from Kim and Jenna Lee (San Clemente, Calif. / Jserra Catholic) who put together decisive performances following first-set losses.
Trinity had total control of the SCAC contest in the evening with shutout victories in the first two lines of doubles, then a straight-sets shutout from Ella Cummings (Albuquerque, N.M. / Sandia) in line-five singles set up the clincher for Hill in line two, 6-2, 6-0.
Lee and Trinity Hatchett (Pearland, Texas / Dawson) made their collegiate doubles debut Saturday in the 8-6 line-three victory, while Constanza Gomez (San Jose, Costa Rica / Blue Valley) put together a 6-1, 6-0 line-six win in her first appearance of the season to complete the shutout of the Mountaineers.
Up Next
No. 24 Trinity Women's Tennis begins its week-long gauntlet with national contenders Monday as it hosts No. 1 University of Chicago at 5:30 p.m. CT.
The rest of the week features No. 30 Gustavus Adolphus College (MN), No. 6 Tufts University (MA), No. 12 University of Mary Washington (VA) and No. 21 Washington University (MO).
