HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (March 4, 2016) – The No. 48-ranked FIU women's tennis team (8-1) won its seventh-straight with a 4-3 victory over the Marshall Thundering Herd (4-6) on Friday from the Huntington Tennis Club.
Marshall jumped out to a 1-0 lead after winning the doubles portion of the match. The Panthers dropped two of three doubles results with FIU's lone win coming via the tandem of redshirt freshman
Andrea Lazaro and senior
Carlotta Orlando defeating Anna Pomyatinskaya and Marija Bogicevic, 6-3.
FIU tied the match, 1-1, when Lazaro defeated Maddie Silver, 6-1, 6-2. The Panthers took a 2-1 lead after sophomore
Nerma Caluk downed Bogicevic, 6-2, 6-4, for her 20
th win of the season. Freshman Maryna Veskler had her nine-match winning streak snapped with a 6-0, 7-6 (4) loss to Derya Turhan (No. 97) at the No. 1 position. The loss tied the match at 2-all. Orlando gave FIU a 3-2 lead with a 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 win over Pomyatinskaya. Senior
Kaitlin Brozovich clinched the match for the Panthers, defeating Anne Gulsrud, 6-1, 6-2. The Herd got the final point of the match as junior
Nina Nagode lost to Rachael Morales, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5.
The win improves FIU to 3-1 all-time versus Marshall and gives the Panthers their longest winning streak since claiming nine-straight during the 2011 season.
The Panthers will stay in Huntington, W.Va., to take on the VCU Rams on Saturday, March 5. First serve is set for 1:00 p.m.
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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/.
