Abilene Christian's Cassie Carver was named Lone Star Conference
Tennis Players of the Week for her performance last week, the
league office announced today.
Tennis Athletes of the Week
MEN’S
No nominees.
WOMEN’S
Cassie Carver, Abilene Christian, So., Oklahoma City,
Okla.
Carver won her singles matches against St. Edward’s and
Cameron by consecutive scores of 6-1, 6-1 and 5-7, 6-2, 10-6,
respectively. Carver played at No. 4 singles where she only
has one loss on the season and is 7-3 in her last 10 matches.
She also teamed with Hannah Kelly for dominating 8-2 and 8-1
victories in No. 2 doubles. The tandem is 6-3 on the season
at No. 2 doubles and 2-0 in the LSC.
Tennis Other Top Performers
Amanda Moberg, Cameron, led the
nationally-ranked #33 Aggie women’s tennis team (14-7) to a
berth in the NCAA Regional Championship tournament with a 3-2 team
performance last week. Moberg, CU’s #1 singles and #1 doubles
player, went 4-1 in singles over the week, and 3-2 in doubles
for the week with partner Julia Puckhaber. Moberg dominated in her
four singles wins this week, and nearly came away with yet another
unblemished record. Her few losses were very close matches. As of
this release Moberg was still the NCAA South Central region’s
top ranked singles player, and 4th ranked doubles team.
Antonella Rossini, Central Oklahoma, delivered a
singles win at #4 spot against East Central Nilsa Ramirez, and
teamed up with Rose Cabato to get another win at #3 doubles for
Bronchos.
Tennis Notes (Submitted by LSC SID’s)
Abilene Christian
The sixth-ranked nationally and top ranked regional team ACU won
their only match of the week against St. Edward’s the No. 6
team in the region. The Wildcats now have 20 or more wins for
the 11th consecutive season. With only one more match against
Cameron this week ACU will look to win their third consecutive team
title and seventh consecutive double championship with the tandem
of Jaclyn Walker and Julia Mongin. ACU has only lost one
match to an NCAA DII team ranked higher than #7 coming at the hands
of West Florida who was No. 10 at the time. The rest of the
Wildcats loses have came from teams ranked higher, or from Division
I with the exception of Auburn-Montgomery who is No. 1 in
NAIA. On the men’s side ACU is coming off a
disappointing 5-4 loss to St. Edward’s in their only match of
the week. The Wildcats were swept in doubles giving the
Hilltoppers the victory. The loss drops ACU to 13-11 over all
heading into their final match before the LSC Championships with
Cameron University the two teams on the men’s side to battle
for the conference title. After winning a program record 26
matches last season ACU will fall short of the 20 win plateau for
the first time since 2003, a season in which they won 19 games.
Cameron
Cameron’s nationally-ranked #23 men’s team is currently
16-8 on the year, while the #33 women’s squad has a record of
14-7... Both teams have already locked up a bid to the NCAA
Regional tournament in May... Last week the CU women went 3-2 in
five matches. In a swing through South Texas, the women defeated
St. Edward’s 6-3 and St. Mary’s 5-1, but fell to
Incarnate Word 5-4. CU then bounced back with a 5-4 win over Dallas
Baptist, before losing to Abilene Christian 9-0 the very next
day... Cameron’s men went 2-3 in their five matches last week
against the same opponents as their female counterparts. CU fell to
St. Edward’s 5-2 and to Incarnate Word 5-0. CU rebounded with
a 5-3 win over St. Mary’s and an 8-1 win over Dallas Baptist,
before being swept by Abilene Christian at home, 9-0... Since this
week’s women’s quad match at Northeastern State has
been cancelled, the 2009-2010 regular season has come to an end for
both Cameron Aggie tennis teams. The next action for both squads
will be at the annual Lone Star Conference Championship tournament
April 23-24 in Oklahoma City. Regardless of how CU performs in the
LSC event, the Aggies will move on to the first round of the NCAA
Regional Championship tournament (May 6-8).
Central Oklahoma
East Central
Midwestern State
Northeastern State
Southeastern Oklahoma
Tarleton State
The TexAnns dropped a pair of LSC matches this week, falling 5-3 to
Midwestern State and then 5-4 to Northeastern State. Tarleton ends
conference match-play at 4-3. Tarleton heads into its season finale
with St. Edward’s this Saturday at 12-7 overall. The TexAnns
and Hilltoppers will play at 9 a.m. on Saturday at Potishman-Lard
Tennis Courts in Stephenville.