Oregon women’s tennis added its fourth win of the season yesterday beating Portland State 6-1.
The Ducks are now 4-0 in dual season play for the second straight year.
On Saturday, the team beat the University of Portland 6-1, dropping its first point of the season when senior Nicole Long lost her No. 1 dual singles match by the score of 6-3, 6-5.
Long was able to secure a win against the Vikings beating Dane Vorster in a 10-8 tiebreaker after dropping the first set.
“After losing my match yesterday, I said to myself this isn’t happening again,” Long told GoDucks.com. “I wasn’t going to let someone come out firing and beat me. I just had to ride the waves until she started missing and regain my rhythm.”
In doubles play, the Ducks were successful with the help of Long and Jasmine Minor winning their match 6-1.
Minor also won in singles, defeating Sabina-Elena Preda 6-2, 6-3.
Twins, Allie and Kadie Hueffner secured Oregon the point in doubles, winning 6-3.
Kadie saw her first action in singles play, but lost in a tiebreaker to Alexa McDonald 7-5, 2-6, 1-0 (10-4).
Also picking up wins for the Ducks were Sofia Hager, Lana Buttner and freshman Maja Salibasic.
Buttner was dominant in her match winning 6-1, 6-0.
Hager won 6-4, 6-1, while Salibasic earned her first dual match win of her career winning 6-1, 6-4.
“It was a good match for us to test out the depth of our line up,” head coach Paul Reber told GoDucks.com. “For Kadie and Maja both to play in their first dual match of their career is a great experience. We’re hoping they learn and grow from this experience.”
The No. 72 Ducks will travel to Iowa this weekend to face Iowa and DePaul. Oregon will face the Hawkeyes on Friday, Feb. 7 and DePaul on Saturday.
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