Long
days do not stop tennis team
Women's
tennis: Long Beach wins doubles championships
and has seven women playing on the final
day of competition.
By
Karl Peterson
Daily Forty-Niner
Early
starts and long days at the 2003 Fall Cal
State Fullerton Intercollegiate Tournament
did not stop the women's tennis team from
having a successful competition.
"We
had a pretty good weekend, long weekend,"
head coach Jennifer Hilt-Costello said.
"The matches started fairly early and
we had a lot of matches in a short amount
of time."
Tammy
Day and Nicole Bouffler beat teammates Lindsey
Marvel and Alanah Carroll to win the doubles
championship Sunday.
An
international doubles team, Bouffler a junior
transfer from University of Texas, San Antonio
who hails from Orange, New South Wales,
Australia and Day a freshman from Pretoria,
South Africa, beat Carroll a fellow Aussie
and Marvel, 8-4.
Each
of the doubles teams were performing for
the first time as partners and Hilt-Costello
said they were chosen as partners because
of how they played together in practice,
the individual's strengths and the personalities
of the players
Bouffler
also performed well in singles competition
making it to the semifinals of the main
draw before falling to Pepperdine's Karin
Schlapbach, 6-4, 6-2.
It
was a great tournament for the 49ers who
had seven women in competition on the final
day of the tournament, including Carroll
who defeated teammate Jessica Conrad in
the consolation finals, 8-6.
Carroll
would later fall to UC Santa Barbara's Leslie
Damion, 8-1 in the consolation bracket finals.
Hilt-Costello
was happy with her team's play overall but
said that the team needed some work on singles
play.
"We
are going to concentrate a little more on
singles, taking balls out of the air and
working on approach shots, and learning
how to finish points," Hilt-Costello
said.
The
Beach also won the consolation doubles final
as the team of Claudia Argumedo and Krystina
Katayama defeated Cal State Fullerton's
Caroline Freeman and Ashley Dunbar, 8-5.
Hilt-Costello
decided to pull the team out of last week's
Riviera All-American Championship in favor
of having the full team compete in Fullerton.
She stands by her decision because of the
success of the team and the experience the
many matches provided the players.
49er tennis will next be in action at the
ITA Southwest Regional in San Diego Oct.
23-26.
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