Women's Tennis Wins Two Matches In Nashville

Tuesday, March 27

Nashville, Tenn.

11:30 a.m.

Murray State

Tennessee-Chattanooga

3/27/2007 5:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis

Murray State's women's tennis team earned two victories today, including a 7-0 shutout of Ohio Valley Conference member Tennessee State University. Before beating the Lady Tigers (0-6, 0-3 OVC), the Racers (7-5, 2-1 OVC) defeated Tennessee-Chattanooga, 4-2, at Belmont University.

Against Tennessee-Chattanooga (5-13) the Racers dropped matches at No. 1 and No. 2 singles but swept the remaining singles matches to pull out the 4-2 win. No doubles matches were played.

Anastasia Zhukova, the 46^th ranked player in NCAA Division I women's tennis, beat MSU's Anna Lask, 6-0 and 6-1, at No. 1 singles. Rachael Lask won the first set at No. 2 singles, but UTC's Lindsey Ballard took the second and third sets by 6-4 scores to claim the point for the Mocs.

Senior Casady Pruitt knocked off Beata Knizat, 6-4 and 7-6 (7-1), at No. 3 singles.

A trio of freshmen took care of business for Murray State at No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 singles. Angela McGahee took out Bonnie Adams, 7-5, 2-6 and 6-4, at No. 4 singles. Lynsey Bochenek beat Samantha Duggan in three sets at No. 5 singles, 6-2, 4-6 and 6-0. Lyndsay Ottosen finished off Kate Ksiezopolski in straight sets, 6-3 and 6-2.

The Racers had little trouble from Tennessee State, losing just two games in doubles and five games in five singles matches.

MSU earned default wins at No. 3 doubles and No. 6 singles.

Anna Lask teamed with Adriana Alvarez to beat Megan Haynes and Penelope Johnson, 8-1, at No. 1 doubles. McGahee and Bochenek took out Stephanie Fields and Lauren Harrison, 8-1, at No. 2 doubles.

All five Racers earned straight set victories in singles play. Anna Lask tied Murray State's career record for combined singles and doubles wins with a 6-2 and 6-0 victory over Haynes at No. 1 singles. Lask is tied with Sheri Chong (1985-89) with 185 career wins.

McGahee, Bochenek and Ottosen each lost just one game on their way to 6-1 and 6-0 wins. Alvarez shutout Harrison in back-to-back sets to pick up a win at No. 5 singles.

The Racers will play their first home match of the season on Thursday when they host Southeast Missouri State for an OVC match at the Purcell Tennis Courts on the MSU campus. The match will begin at 2:30 p.m.