TACOMA, Wash. Whitman College's 26th-ranked women's tennis team extended its unbeaten start to the spring season with an 8-1 thrashing host University of Puget Sound in a Northwest Conference match at the Loggers' indoor Tennis Pavilion.
Whitman (3-0, 3-0 NWC) swept through the doubles matches to open Friday afternoon's bout, staking the singles players to a 3-0 lead.
Andrea Gu and
Lori Sheng clearly have something going as doubles partners as the duo's 8-0 triumph at 2-doubles over Puget Sound's Elizabeth Chao and Bridget Myers lifted the Whitman tandem to 3-0 this spring by a cumulative count of 24-5.
Mary Hill and
Hanna Greenberg are also 3-0, by a combined total of 24-7, after rolling to an 8-3 in the No. 1 position. In fact, the No. 3 pairing of
Allie Wallin and
Jenna Gilbert is also 3-0 this spring, reaching that mark with an 8-2 triumph Friday.
Hill picked up Whitman's first singles point, pounding out a 6-3, 6-0 win over the Loggers' Nicole Bouche at 2-singles, and soon after Greenberg added the clinching point for Whitman with her 1and 3 win over Myers at No. 4.
Gu and No. 3, Sheng at No. 4 and Gilbert at No. 6 also picked up quick straight-set wins for Whitman, dropping a combined nine games between the three of them.
Whitman heads right back onto the court Saturday afternoon with a 1 p.m. conference match at Pacific Lutheran University, then closes the weekend Sunday at NCAA Division I Seattle University in a non-league match.
