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5
Winner St. Thomas UST (7-1)
2
UW-Superior Women UWSW (11-4)
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St. Thomas UST
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UW-Superior Women UWSW
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Kate Jonas
Andrew Mathews
Kate Jonas

Match Recap: Women's Tennis | | Jon Garver, Director of Athletic Communications

Yellowjackets Fall to St. Thomas, 5-2

GULF SHORES, Ala. – The trip to Alabama has been a good one for the Yellowjacket women's tennis team.
 
On a pretty good roll before heading south, the Yellowjackets won their first three matches of the trip, but their stiffest test waited for the end of the trip, as the Yellowjackets took on St. Thomas out of Texas.

Each team came into Friday having swept their previous matches, and each team was riding a winning streak. It was St. Thomas, however, that would see its streak continue. The Celts took the doubles point and then collected wins in the top four singles slots on the way to a 5-2 win over the Yellowjackets at the Gulf Shores Tennis Complex.
 
The Yellowjackets, who are now 11-4 overall, finish their trip in Alabama 3-1.
 
Kate Jonas (Annandale, Minn./Annandale) and Brooke Wilfong (St. Cloud, Minn./St. Cloud Tech) were the lone Yellowjacket doubles duo to earn a victory, beating St. Thomas' Hannah Snyder and Karissa Guzman by a 6-2 score in the No. 3 slot. Jonas was also victorious in her singles match, besting Snyder at No. 6.
 
Match Notes
  • Jonas took the opening set at No. 6 singles by a 6-2 score, but Snyder came back and blanked Jonas 0-6 in the second. Jonas outlasted Snyder in the tiebreaker, beating her 10-7 to take the third set 1-0.
  • The other point for the Yellowjackets came at No. 5 singles, where Giulia Araujo De Barros (Curitiba, Brazil/Colegio Sabre) defeated Aimee Tran in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2.
  • At No. 4 singles, Claudia Curtis (Lake Mills, Wis./Lake Mills) took the opening set 6-3 before falling 2-6 in the second. St. Thomas' Nataly Velasco got one more break point than Curtis to take the tiebreaker 10-8, winning the third set.
  • Araujo De Barros improved to 11-2 in singles play and has now won four straight matches. Her 11 singles wins leads the team.
  • Jonas has won eight of her last nine singles matches.
  • Wilfong and Jonas are 3-0 as doubles partners after Friday.
  • With her loss at No. 4 singles, Curtis had her three-match winning streak snapped. She has won five of her last seven matches.
The Yellowjackets will be back in action Saturday, March 22, when they travel to St. Peter, Minn. to take on Gustavus Adolphus College. The first serve is set for 1:30 p.m. at the Swanson Tennis Center.
 
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