Womens Tennis Takes Down UCF

Hey Bulls Fans, Rames here, writing for this and the USF Oracle. Womens Tennis this afternoon, riveting... But anyway heres the full report, exactly what will be seen in the USF Oracle tomorrow, so here is a peephole. Wait thats inappropriate, a sneak peek.

The USF Womens Tennis team finally played on their home courts, and finally got to play an unranked team for the first time this season, awelcome sight for a team reeling with 5 straight losses after a 1-0 start. The Lady Bulls took advantage of a home crowd and the easier opponent for a relatively easy win, to improve their record to 2-4, and drop the Knights to 3-3. "Although UCF isn't ranked, they are still a very tough team to beat," said Senior Irene Rehberger, "but having lost 5 straight matches, playing at home allowed us to get our confidence up and get a victory." Head Coach Agustin Moreno agreed with the difficulty of their opponent. "UCF is our rival, and they are a very hard team to beat, and it was nice to get a win," he said.

The match started with doubles play, 3 matches, with whichever team winning at least 2 of those 3 matches getting a point. The team ofUSF's Loreto Alonso Martinez, freshman, and Ecaterina Vasenina, Sophmore, dominated from the start, and managed to win their Match 8-2over UCF's Jenny Frisell, Senior, and Alexis Rodriguez, Junior. Freshmen Alessandra Bonte and Kate Parker played a hotly contested match going back and forth, finally taking down UCF's Taylor Dubins,Junior, and Jenna Doerfler, sophmore. In a match that looked like UCF would run away with, the Bulls's Rehberger, and Janette Bejikova, a red shirt Junior, showed resolve in coming back from a 7-2 deficit to finish with a 8-6 loss to UCF's Genevieve Lorbergs, a Sophmore, and Courtney Griffith, a Freshman.

Having picked up the doubles point, the Bulls knew they only needed to win 3 of the 6 singles matches. The girls came out agressive, with 3 of their top 4 players winning quickly and easily. The Bulls's number 1 player, Rehberger, was dominant in winning her match 6-0 6-2. Number 2 Vasenina took down her opponent in similar fashion, 6-2 6-1. Number 4 Martinez took care of business and sealed up the match with a win 6-3 6-0. USF's number 6, Parker, lost 6-0 6-1, while the other 2,Bejikova and Bonte won, 6-2 6-4 and 6-0 6-4, respectively.

"It was nice to get back on track with a victory," said Moreno, "We have had a very tough schedule, one of the toughest in the nation to start out. The win means a lot to us."