GOLDEN SUNS TENNIS RETURNS HOME AND POSTS 9-0 VICTORY
OVER UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS

        RUSSELLVILLE, Arkansas – Arkansas Tech Golden Suns Tennis returned to action this past Saturday and posted a 9-0 win over the University of Ozarks at its new Chartwell’s Women’s Sports Complex.

Tech, who improved to 3-1 on the combined fall and spring seasons, opened by collecting all three doubles matches, including posting 8-0 wins at both No. 1 and No. 3 doubles.

In singles play, Tech only allowed Ozarks to score nine points in the six singles matches as junior Kristen Brown (Winona, Texas) and senior Renee Malcuit (Lakeside, Calif.) posted 6-0, 6-0 wins at No. 4 and No. 6 singles, while senior Puja Paul (Kolkata, West Bengal India) won 6-0, 6-1 at No. 3 and senior Whitney Simmons (Pottsville, Ark.) won 6-1, 6-0 at No. 5 singles.

Tech, who was scheduled to face Christian Brothers on Thursday, Feb. 28 at home, but that match was been postponed and will be rescheduled later in the season, will now return to action this weekend when they travel to Livingston, Ala., to face West Alabama on March 1 at 2 p.m. and then will face Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Sunday, March 2 at 10 a.m.

Results

Arkansas Tech 9, University of Ozarks 0

Singles

No 1. – Saki Matsuoka (Tech) def. Lea Rama (Ozarks), 6-1; 6-1

No. 2 – Michelle Yu (Tech) def. Robin Bass (Ozarks), 6-0; 7-5

No. 3 – Puja Paul (Tech) def. Brittany Hein (Ozarks), 6-0; 6-1

No. 4 – Kristen Brown (Tech) def. Jennifer Fretwell (Ozarks), 6-0; 6-0

No. 5 – Whitney Simmons (Tech) def. Lindsey Hanna (Ozarks), 6-1; 6-0

No. 6 – Renee Malcuit (Tech) def. Whitney Eastman (Ozarks), 6-0; 6-0

Doubles

No. 1 – Anna Carson/Matsuoka (Tech) def. Rama/Bass (Ozarks), 8-0

No. 2 – Paul/Yu (Tech) def. Hein/Fretwell (Tech), 8-2

No. 3 – Simmons/Brown (Tech) def. Eastman/Hanna (Ozarks), 8-0

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