Sixth-ranked Azusa Pacific (11-4, 7-4 GSAC) paid a visit to the Abbott Tennis Courts on Tuesday afternoon and left with an 8-1 Golden State Athletic Conference victory over Westmont Women’s Tennis (4-11, 4-7 GSAC).
The Warriors’ Ilissa Mathews and Cassie Strange picked up Westmont’s only win at number one doubles, defeating Sheryl Bon and Sarita Adhikary 8-5. Matthews and Strange bolted out to a 7-2 lead and had two match points before Bon and Adhikary rallied to take three games in a row to make it 7-5. With Strange serving, Bon and Adhikary survived another seven match points before Strange and Matthews wrapped up the match.
In the number two doubles match, Azusa’s Casey Wetzig and Leah Hoffee defeated Tara Yekrang and Sarah Louie 8-4 while on the number three court, Jessalyn Lau and Marie Tanaka swept Sarah Chhum and Audrey Seversen 8-0.
The Cougars had an easy time of it in the bottom two-thirds of the singles lineup. At number three, Severson lost to Emily Ignas 6-0, 6-0 and at number four Wetzig lost to Louie 6-0, 6-2. Tanaka earned a 6-0, 6-0 victory over Chhum at number five and Lau defeated Hanna Day 6-0, 6-0 at number six.
On the number one court, Bon defeated Strange 6-1, 6-1 in a match which lasted much longer than the score would indicate.
The closest of the matches was played at the number two court. Matthews won the first set 4-6 but Hoffee rallied to win the second set 7-6 (3). That sent the match to a superbreaker to settle the matter, which Hoffee won 10-6.
The Warriors will travel to La Mirada on Thursday to take on the Eagles of Biola (5-12, 2-10 GSAC) in a two o’clock match.
