MANCHESTER, Mass. (Feb. 21, 2015) – The FIU women's tennis team (2-5) fell to the No. 63-ranked Brown Bears, 4-3, on Saturday evening from the Manchester Athletic Club in Manchester, Mass.
FIU jumped out to a 1-0 lead taking all three doubles matches.
Brown tied the match at 1-1 in singles play as freshman
Nerma Caluk fell to Hannah Camhi, 6-1, 6-3. The Bears extended their lead to 3-1, winning two-straight with a 6-2, 6-1 loss for junior
Kaitlin Brozovich to Ammu Mandalap and a 6-2, 6-3 loss for junior
Carlotta Orlando to Alyza Benotto, 6-2, 6-3. Senior
Yana Koroleva made the score 3-2 with a 6-4, 7-6 (5) win over Dayna Lord.
The Panthers tied the match at 3-all following a 3-6, 7-5, 6-0 win for sophomore
Nina Nagode over Maddie Stearns. However, Brown clinched the match as sophomore
Valentina Briceno fell to Nikita Uberoi, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, to hand FIU the loss.
The Panthers will return home to host the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles on Saturday, Feb. 28. First serve from the FIU Tennis Courts is set for 2:00 p.m. ET.
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Florida International University is recognized as a Carnegie engaged university. It is a public research university with colleges and schools that offer more than 180 bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU contributes $8.9 billion each year to the local economy. FIU is Worlds Ahead in finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission. FIU has awarded over 200,000 degrees and enrolls more than 54,000 students in two campuses and three centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell, FIU@I-75, and the Miami Beach Urban Studios. FIU also supports artistic and cultural engagement through its three museums: the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. FIU is a member of Conference USA and has over 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.
