PORTLAND, Ore. – The Santa Clara women's tennis team was defeated 6-1 by the No. 61 Portland Pilots in its final regular season match. The Broncos end the dual season with an overall record of 7-11 and a conference record of 3-6.
Portland jumped out to a 1-0 lead from doubles wins. Continuing her trend of down-to-the-wire matches, Zeina El Tawil shone for the Broncos with a 5-7, 7-6 (3), 1-0(5) singles win over Jelena Lezarevic. But the Broncos were unable to fight off the surging Pilots, who finish the season 15-5 overall and 7-2 in the WCC.
The Broncos are locked in to the seventh seed going into the WCC Championships, which kick off Tues., April 21 in San Diego.
See the WCC women's tennis rankings here.
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Go Broncos!
Portland 6, Santa Clara 1
Doubles | Order of Finish: 2, 1
1) Butkovska/Lazarevic (POR) def. Nabila Farah/Daniella Silva (SCU) 6-3
2) van den Aarssen/Mladenovic (POR) def. Chelby Cooke/Danielle Zinn (SCU) 6-0
3) Could/Troesch (POR) vs. El Tawil/Riley Morgan (SCU) 5-4, DNF
Singles | Order of Finish: 1, 2, 3*, 6, 5, 4
1) Lucia Butkovska (POR) def. Nabila Farah (SCU) 6-2, 6-1
2) Maja Mladenovic (POR) def. Chelby Cooke (SCU) 6-4, 6-3
3) Sophie van den Aarssen (POR) def. Daniella Silva (SCU) 6-3, 6-3
4) Zeina El Tawil (SCU) def. Jelena Lezarevic (POR) 5-7, 7-6(3), 1-0(5)
5) Saroop Dhatt (POR) def. Danielle Zinn (SCU) 6-1, 6-4
6) Tori Troesch (POR) def. Elaine Chesoni (SCU) 6-3, 6-0
