Northwestern
South Carolina
Women's Tennis Beats South Carolina, 5-2
2/19/2000 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Feb. 19, 2000
EVANSTON, Ill. - The Northwestern University women's tennis team earned its second upset win in two days at the USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships, defeating No. 14 South Carolina, 5-2, in Madison.
The 18th-ranked Wildcats are now 7-1 on the spring campaign, while the Gamecocks fell to 5-3. Northwestern went 2-1 on the weekend in Madison.
NU got off to a good start by gaining the doubles point, winning two of the three matches. Colleen Cheng and Katherine Nasser were victorious at No. 1 (9-7), while Lia Jackson and Marine Piriou were winners at No. 2 (8-5).
In singles play, the 'Cats dropped the top two matches but won the other four to clinch the victory. Cheng was a straight-set winner at No. 3 and Piriou was a straight-set winner at No. 5. The key came with three-set wins by Lia Jackson at No. 4 and Jennifer Lutgert at No. 6.
*MATCH RESULTS*
Northwestern 5, South Carolina 2
DOUBLES
1. Cheng/Nasser (NU) def. Markovski/Radman (SC), 9-7.
2. Jackson/Piriou (NU) def. Eichelberger/Tan (SC), 8-5.**
3. Boyanovich/Sutton (SC) def. Duffy/Lutgert (NU), 8-4.
**Clinched doubles point
SINGLES
1. Katarina Markovski (SC) def. Katherine Nasser (NU) 6-2, 7-5.
2. Jennifer Radman (SC) def. Shannon Duffy (NU) 3-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-7).
3. Colleen Cheng (NU) def. Leigh Eichelberger (SC) 7-5, 6-2.
4. Lia Jackson (NU) def. Tamara Sutton (SC) 6-0, 3-6, 1-0 (10-6).*
5. Marine Piriou (NU) def. Lynn-Yin Tan (SC) 6-3, 6-0.
6. Jennifer Lutgert (NU) def. Katherine Boyanovich (SC) 4-6, 6-1, 1-0 (10-8).
*Clinched match for Northwestern
NOTE: The USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships employed a new scoring system utilizing a tiebreaker rather than a third set to determine the winner.
