Tennis competes at MIAA
Joe Bell
Issue date: 5/1/08 Section: Sports
Losses in doubles plagued the Bulldog tennis teams last weekend.
Truman headed to Topeka, Kan., to play in the MIAA conference tournament. The women entered as the No. 3 seed and the men as No. 4. The women advanced to the semifinals, but the men were knocked out in the first round.
The women's first match was against Missouri Southern State University. MSSU took an early lead in the match, taking two of three doubles matches. Only the Truman No. 2 team of senior Jennifer Salmon and freshman Amy Ochs notched a win. The Bulldogs came back strong in singles, winning four of the five matches to give the women a 5-3 victory.
The women advanced to the semifinals to play Southwest Baptist University in the next round of the tournament but lost to the Bearcats 5-3.
"We had lost to them earlier this season, so it would have been really cool if we'd been able to beat them, but we couldn't quite pull it off," Ochs said. "One of our doubles teams won a match that we hadn't won last time we played them, so that was good. But we ended up losing again."
The two doubles losses to MSSU did not cost the women, but doubles losses in their match against SBU did prove costly. The 'Dogs only were able to muster one doubles victory from the No. 3 team of freshmen Anna Greenwald and Kelsey Kuykendall.
The Bearcats' Jenna Hendrickson also snapped Ochs' singles win streak. Prior to this match, Ochs had won 24 straight singles matches.
Salmon and junior Lindsy Blair won their singles matches.
"I think we played well as a team all weekend against Missouri Southern, as well as Southwest Baptist," Salmon said. "We played a close match with Southwest Baptist, who ended up going on to win the whole tournament. So I think we feel pretty good about that."
The consolation match for the women, which was to take place against Washburn University, was cancelled because of the weather.
Injuries in addition to doubles losses hamstrung the men during their meet. A previous injury limited sophomore John Rothfusz to playing doubles, and an injury sustained during senior Cody Pusateri's singles match forced him to forfeit the match in the second set.
Truman headed to Topeka, Kan., to play in the MIAA conference tournament. The women entered as the No. 3 seed and the men as No. 4. The women advanced to the semifinals, but the men were knocked out in the first round.
The women's first match was against Missouri Southern State University. MSSU took an early lead in the match, taking two of three doubles matches. Only the Truman No. 2 team of senior Jennifer Salmon and freshman Amy Ochs notched a win. The Bulldogs came back strong in singles, winning four of the five matches to give the women a 5-3 victory.
The women advanced to the semifinals to play Southwest Baptist University in the next round of the tournament but lost to the Bearcats 5-3.
"We had lost to them earlier this season, so it would have been really cool if we'd been able to beat them, but we couldn't quite pull it off," Ochs said. "One of our doubles teams won a match that we hadn't won last time we played them, so that was good. But we ended up losing again."
The two doubles losses to MSSU did not cost the women, but doubles losses in their match against SBU did prove costly. The 'Dogs only were able to muster one doubles victory from the No. 3 team of freshmen Anna Greenwald and Kelsey Kuykendall.
The Bearcats' Jenna Hendrickson also snapped Ochs' singles win streak. Prior to this match, Ochs had won 24 straight singles matches.
Salmon and junior Lindsy Blair won their singles matches.
"I think we played well as a team all weekend against Missouri Southern, as well as Southwest Baptist," Salmon said. "We played a close match with Southwest Baptist, who ended up going on to win the whole tournament. So I think we feel pretty good about that."
The consolation match for the women, which was to take place against Washburn University, was cancelled because of the weather.
Injuries in addition to doubles losses hamstrung the men during their meet. A previous injury limited sophomore John Rothfusz to playing doubles, and an injury sustained during senior Cody Pusateri's singles match forced him to forfeit the match in the second set.
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