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Box Score 2 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University tennis team defeated Cleveland State and Radford in a doubleheader on Saturday at Summit Tennis Academy in Morgantown.
West Virginia (7-1) began the day by defeating Cleveland State, 5-2. The doubles pairing of junior
Michaela Kucharova and senior
Momoko Nagato defeated Cleveland State's Sima Heren and Bethany Yauch, 6-4. The Mountaineers earned the doubles point when redshirt sophomore
Maja Dodik and freshman
Maya Bordereau won, 6-1.
West Virginia followed up doubles play by winning four of the six singles matches. Dodik defeated Yauch, 6-2, 7-5, and Nagato beat Cleveland State's Tereze Vevere, 7-5, 6-2.
The Mountaineers locked up the win over Cleveland State when Kucharova beat Filippa Frogner, 6-1, 6-1.
West Virginia kept things rolling against Radford, winning, 4-1.
Dodik won the first singles match for the Mountaineers, defeating Radford's Emily Brandow, 6-2, 6-1. Nagato then earned her second singles victory of the day, defeating Radford's Lexi Smolder, 6-3, 6-3.
Bordereau sealed the win for West Virginia with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Radford's Michaela Stephens.
West Virginia 5, Cleveland State 2
Doubles Results
Singles Results
- Oihane Vicario (CSU) def. Love-Star Alexis (WVU), 7-5, 7-5
- Sima Heren (CSU) def. Maya Bordereau (WVU), 6-3, 6-4
- Momoko Nagato (WVU) def. Tereze Vevere (CSU), 7-5, 6-2
- Maja Dodik (WVU) def. Bethany Yauch (CSU), 6-2, 7-5
- Ting-Pei Chang (WVU) def. Ella Franz (CSU), 6-2, 7-5
- Michaela Kucharova (WVU) def. Filippa Frogner (CSU), 6-1, 6-1
West Virginia 4, Radford 1
Doubles Results
Singles Results
- Julia Abrams (RU) def. Love-Star Alexis (WVU), 6-4, 6-4
- Maya Bordereau (WVU) def. Michaela Stephens (RU), 6-4, 6-4
- Momoko Nagato (WVU) def. Lexi Smolder (RU), 6-3, 6-3
- Maja Dodik (WVU) def. Emily Brandow (RU), 6-2, 6-1
- Ting-Pei Chang (WVU) vs. Rachel Ekanem (RU), 6-0 (unfinished)
- Brooke Murphy (RU) vs. Catherine Wassick (WVU), 6-2 (unfinished)
Up next, West Virginia will play host to Toledo on Friday, Feb. 16, and William & Mary on Sunday, Feb. 18.
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