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Beach
wins, play Anteaters for title
By Sarah Duffy
On-line Forty-Niner
OJAI -- The Long
Beach State women's tennis team celebrated a 4-2 victory Saturday
over Cal State Northridge in the semifinals of the Big West
Championships that propelled the team into Sunday's finals.
"We dominated today," said Ana Dvornikova, the No.
1 singles and doubles' player for the 49ers.
Alena Dvornikova agreed with her sister and doubles' partner.
"It was a great day overall," she said.
The Dvornikovas teamed to win, 8-5, at No. 1 doubles Saturday,
but CSUN won two matches at the No. 2 and No. 3 positions
to take the closely contested doubles' point to start the
match.
Despite the slow start in doubles, LBSU coach Jenny Hilt said
the 49ers didn't get down.
"We walked out very confident in our singles' matches,
and the match isn't over after the doubles' point," Hilt
said. "I think that's what the girls were focusing on,
every singles' match."
In singles, the 49ers won at positions No. 3 through No. 6.
Anastastia Dvornikova was leading in her match against Tereza
Simonyan, 7-6, 5-2, when the umpire called the team victory
for the 49ers after Cheryl Kindred had won her match, 4-6,
6-0, 6-1, against Veronika Wagner.
"[CSUN] tested us, and we stood up to the test,"
said No. 4 singles player Laura Thomas, who has won 19 of
the 21 matches this season.
Said freshman Claudia Argumedo, who won her match at No. 6
singles, 6-3, 6-2, against Brittany Bierman: "When you
have lots of pressure, you don't play well. So have fun and
play good, and you'll take care of business if you play good."
Argumedo has won 11 of 12 matches in straight sets this season,
and is 12-2 overall.
The 49ers advanced to the semifinals after beating UC Santa
Barbara, 4-1, Friday. The doubles portion of that match was
canceled because of rain, so Ana Dvornikova set the tone for
LBSU with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Uzma Khan, a player she
lost to earlier in the season.
"Ana managed to attack [Khan's forehand] really well,"
Hilt said, "and I think she did a good job of breaking
it down in the second [set]."
The Beach moved on to play UC Irvine for the Big West title
Sunday. Results of that match will be in Tuesday's On-line
Forty-Niner.
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