MIAMI (March 10, 2017) – The FIU women's tennis team (11-1) won its ninth-straight match with a 7-0 blanking of Boston University on Friday afternoon from the FIU Tennis Courts.
The win snapped a two-match losing skid for the Panthers versus the Terriers (5-6). It also improved FIU to 6-0 at home this season.
The Panthers took the doubles portion of the match as
Nina Nagode and
Andrea Lazaro defeated Remi Ramos and Barbara Rodriguez, 6-1,
Maryna Veksler and
Ulyana Grib topped Sabrina Faybyshev and Iryna Kostirko, 6-2, and
Gabriela Ferreira and
Mina Markovic downed Madison Craft and Lily O'Fagan, 6-2.
With the 1-0 lead, FIU claimed all six singles points for the team's sixth shutout of the season. Grib got the scoring started with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Sophia Kryloff. Lazaro made the score 3-0 with a 6-2, 6-2 decision over Kostirko. Ferreira clinched the match, defeating Carla Falxa, 6-0, 6-3.
With the match decided, both squads played the afternoon out as Markovic defeated Faybyshev, 6-4, 6-2, Nagode topped Rodriguez, 2-6, 6-0, 10-6, and Veksler won her 17
th singles decision of the season, beating Ramos, 6-0, 1-6, 6-3.
The Panthers will next host No. 49 VCU on Sunday, March 12. First serve is set for 11:30 a.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/.
