
Posted: Mar 19, 2022
THE TEAMS
Monday: Santa Clara (5-3) vs. Seattle (*1-8)
Tuesday: Santa Clara (5-3) vs. Cal Poly (**6-4)
* Plays Cal Poly on Sunday before facing Santa Clara
** Plays Seattle and Fresno Pacific on Sunday before facing Santa Clara
MATCH INFO
vs. Seattle
When: Monday, March 21 at 11 a.m.
Where: Mustang Tennis Complex (San Luis Obispo, California)
Where: Mustang Tennis Complex (San Luis Obispo, California)
vs. Cal Poly
When: Tuesday, March 22 at 11 a.m.
Where: Mustang Tennis Complex (San Luis Obispo, California)
Where: Mustang Tennis Complex (San Luis Obispo, California)
Stats: Live Stats
NOTES
- Santa Clara is back in action since last playing on March 12 when they defeated New Mexico, 6-1, for their fourth-straight win.
- JennaMarie Gordon and Jamie Schroer have won three-straight singles matches.
- Giulia Hayer leads the team with five singles victories this spring.
- Hayer also leads the Broncos with four doubles wins in the spring along with Katherine Petty.
- During the four-match winning streak, two of the wins have been at 4-3.
- Santa Clara opened West Coast Conference play with a 4-3 road win against Pacific on JennaMarie Gordon's clincher at 3-all (March 5).
- The other clincher came against San José State by Velizara Fileva on Feb. 25.
- Santa Clara returns eight players (JennaMarie Gordon, Giulia Hayer, Finley Kalinic, Lindsay Lynch, Lindsey Pesqueira, Katherine Petty, Jamie Schroer and Varya Zlotnik) from last season and add two newcomers (Kacey Feng and Velizara Fileva).
- During the fall season, Feng led the team with five singles wins while Gordon and Hayer topped the squad with eight doubles wins each.
During the 2020-21 season:
- Four freshmen (Gordon, Kalinic, Petty and Zlotnik) were regulars in the starting lineups in both singles and doubles.
- Gordon, a transfer from Gonzaga, was named honorable mention All-West Coast Conference in singles in her first season on the Mission Campus.
- Kalinic posted a team-high seven wins in singles with three of those wins coming on court three.
- Hayer had a team-high eight doubles wins with seven of them coming on court two, all while paired with Gordon last season.
- Head coach Ben Cabell is in his 16th year as the head coach. He owns a 137-162 career record and has coached 26 all-conference singles, 12 all-conference doubles and 41 conference all-academic honorees.