SBCC won the last three singles on Tuesday to pull even at 3-3 but Santa Monica took two of three doubles sets to hand the visiting Vaqueros their first women’s tennis loss of the year, 5-4. Santa Barbara is 6-1 overall and 4-1 after one round of WSC play.
“It was a great match,” said coach Debbie Ekola. “Meghan (Schaeffer) did a great job of rallying to win at No. 6 (6-4, 2-6, 7-5). The doubles were all really close and No. 1 could have gone either way.”
Lindsay Penner and Kendra Ross were edged at No. 1 doubles 9-8 (7-4 in the tiebreaker).
SBCC travels to Glendale on Tuesday.
Santa Monica 5, SBCC 4. Singles–Julietta Collet, SM, def. Amy Sagraves 6-1, 3-6, 6-4; Anastasia Eliseeva, SM, def. Lindsay Penner 6-3, 6-1; Tatiana Laritzen, SM, def. Kendra Ross 6-3, 6-1; Terea Tapu, SB, def. Alex Thomas 6-2, 7-5; Anna Slyutova, SB, def. Kimberly Penez 6-2, 6-0; Meghan Schaeffer, SB, def. Gwendolin Kauffman 6-4, 2-6, 7-5. Doubles–Eliseeva-Laritzen, SM, def. Penner-Ross 9-8 (4); Collet-Penez, SM, def. Sagraves-Schaeffer 8-4; Slyutova-Tapu, SB, def. Thomas-Kauffman 8-6. Records–SBCC 6-1, 4-1 WSC.
