Marjanovic and Pothier push opposition to third set in loss at #16 Texas A&M

Women's Tennis | 2/14/2016 4:10:00 PM

COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Abilene Christian women's tennis suffered a hard-fought 7-0 loss at 16th-ranked Texas A&M Sunday on the courts of the George P. Mitchell Tennis Center.

The loss dropped the Wildcats to 6-4, while the Aggies improved to 5-3.

A&M won at No. 1 and 2 doubles by the same 6-3 score, but at No. 3 the Aggie team of Domenica Gonzalez and Mason Strickland was trailing senior Nada Marjanovic and sophomore Andrea Crook, 5-4, when that match was suspended.

Strickland and Gonzalez both were able to finish their singles matches over Crook and Marjanovic with wins at No. 6 and 3. Strickland battled past Crook, 7-6 (6), 6-4, and Gonzalez hung on to beat Marjanovic, 6-2, 5-7, 6-2, snappnig the senior's six-match winning streak.

Marjanovic leads ACU this spring with a 9-2 singles record.

Sophomore Lucile Pothier was the Wildcats' last chance for a point, but she fell in three sets to Ines Dehez, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5. Jordan Henry also lost a close match at No. 5 to Anna Mamalat, 7-5, 6-3, and Kaysie Hersmdorf was doubled up by Rutuja Bhosale at No. 2, 6-3, 6-3.

ACU's No. 1 Erin Walker lost her top-line match to Rachel Pierson, 6-2, 6-1.

The Wildcats will look to rebound from this defeat Saturday with a doubleheader in El Paso vs. New Mexico State (10 a.m. CT) and UTEP (3 p.m. CT).
 

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 #16 Texas A&M 7, Abilene Christian 0
George P. Mitchell Tennis Center
College Station, Texas
Sunday, February 14, 2016

Singles
1.     Rachel Pierson (A&M) def. Erin Walker (ACU), 6-2, 6-1
2.     Rutuja Bhosale (A&M) def. Kaysie Hermsdorf (ACU), 6-3, 6-3
3.     Domenica Gonzalez (A&M) def. Nada Marjanovic (ACU), 6-2, 5-7, 6-2
4.     Ines Deheza (A&M) def. Lucile Pothier (ACU), 6-2, 3-6, 7-5
5.     Anna Mamalat (A&M) def. Jordan Henry (ACU), 7-5, 6-3
6.     Mason Strickland (A&M) def. Andrea Crook (ACU), 7-6 (6), 6-4

Doubles (A&M wins the point)
1.     Deheza/Pierson (A&M) def. Walker/Williams (ACU), 6-3
2.     #45 Bhosale/Mamalat (A&M) def. Hermsdorf/Pothier (ACU), 6-3
3.     Gonzalez/Strickland (A&M) vs. Andrea Crook/Marjanovic (ACU), 4-5 unfinished

Order of finish
Doubles: 2, 1
Singles: 1, 2, 5*, 6, 3, 4
*-clinched match