Women's Tennis | 2/15/2015 3:24:00 PM
SAN MARCOS, Texas – In a match played on both outdoor and indoor courts, the Texas State women's tennis team put up a good fight, but it was not enough when the Bobcats dropped a 6-0 decision against South Alabama on Sunday morning at the Bobcat Tennis Center.
The Bobcats entered the match shorthanded with just five players for the second straight day and began the day trailing 1-0 after surrendering the No. 6 singles match with a walkover. The Jaguars also needed to win just one of the two remaining doubles matches to capture another point.
Even though Texas State entered the both doubles matches with its backs to the wall, the Bobcats put themselves in position to win both matches.
In the No. 2 match,
Shannon Beckett and
Monica Pieratt fought back from a 5-4 deficit to tie the score at 6-6 before USA's Michaela Meszarosova and Emily Newton won the next two points for the win.
The No. 1 match ended in similar fashion as Texas State's
Ana Laura Gutierrez and
Pippa Carr fought back to tie the score at 6-6, but Monica Mitta and Laura Valkova also scored the final two points to give the Jaguars a victory in all three doubles matches.
After a light rain in the area made the outdoor courts unsafe to play, the singles matches moved to Texas State's two indoor courts
Eva Dench dropped a 6-3, 6-1 decision against Mary Angela Martin in the No. 4 match. Then Beckett suffered a 6-0, 6-4 loss against Laura Matuskova.
The first set of the No. 3 match had to be decided by an extended tiebreaker as Carr and Mitta battled to a 6-6 tie before Mitta won the tiebreaker, 10-8, and came back to win the second set by a score of 6-1.
In the No. 2 match, Gutierrez also put up a strong fight in the first set before Newton would win it by a 7-5 score. Newton also captured the match when she won the second set by a score of 6-2.
With South Alabama having to catch a flight back to Mobile, the No. 1 match between Pieratt and Valkova was not played due to time constraints.
The loss drops Texas State's record to 1-3 this season, while South Alabama improves to 4-0. The Bobcats will look for their second win of the season when they host UT Pan American next Friday morning at 9:30 a.m. at the Bobcat Tennis Complex. Texas State will also play Northwestern State on Saturday morning at 11 a.m.
