PALMAS DEL MAR, PUERTO RICO – The LIU Brooklyn women's tennis team dropped its first match of spring break in Puerto Rico, to MAC opponent Toledo, 6-1. Freshman Marine Dans had LIU's singles win the No.3 spot.
Toledo took an early lead in the team match, sweeping the Blackbirds in doubles. At Nos.2 and 3 doubles, LIU fell to the Rockets, 8-3. Junior Sanne Louwers and senior Lisa Maas dropped a close match. The duo fell to Toledo's Lexy Pitt and Emily Mazzola, 8-7.
Toledo, who led 1-0 after doubles, picked up another team point with an LIU forfeit at No.6 singles, to go up, 2-0. The Rockets had three straight set wins in singles to clinch the victory. Louwers lost at No.1 singles to Chrissy Coffman, 6-4, 6-2, while Maas fell in the No.2 spot to Katelyn Nguyen, 6-4, 6-2. And freshman Isabella Wagener dropped her match at No.4 singles to Pitt, 6-4, 6-1.
Junior Nancy Zonneveld had a tough three set loss in the No.5 singles spot to Mackenzie Bowman. After winning the first set, 6-4, Zonneveld couldn't hold off Bowman's rally, as the Toledo player came back to win the second and third sets, 6-0, 6-1.
Freshman Marine Dans had LIU's lone victory, as she beat Pia Rygh in the No.3 singles spot. Dans won the first set, 6-2, before Rygh rallied to take the second set, 6-2. But Dans held her off, winning the third set, 6-1, to take the match and win the point for LIU.
The Blackbirds stand at 1-4 in dual matches this spring so far. Up next, the Blackbirds will play St. Joseph's University, Monday, March 10 at 2 p.m., as a final tune up before their first NEC match of the year against Bryant on March 11.
Toledo 6, LIU Brooklyn 1
Doubles
1. Pitt/Emily Mazzola (TOL) def. Louwers/Maas (LIU), 8-7
2. Rygh/Nguyen (TOL) def. Katya Yegoreychenko/Wagener (LIU), 8-3
3. Lauren Thai/Bowman (TOL) def. Dans/Zonneveld (LIU), 8-3
Singles
1. Chrissy Coffman (TOL) def. Sanne Louwers (LIU), 6-4, 6-2
2. Katelyn Nguyen (TOL) def. Lisa Maas (LIU), 6-4, 6-2
3. Marine Dans (LIU) def. Pia Rygh (TOL), 6-2, 2-6, 6-1
4. Lexy Pitt (TOL) def. Isabella Wagener (LIU), 6-4, 6-1
5. Mackenzie Bowman (TOL) def. Nancy Zonneveld (LIU), 4-6, 6-0, 6-1
6. Toledo won by forfeit