Women's Tennis Loses to Middle Tennessee

Sunday, March 4

Louisville, Ky.

1:00 PM ET

University of Louisville

Middle Tenn St

March 04, 2001 | Women's Tennis

March 4, 2001

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The U of L women's tennis team lost to Middle Tennessee 6-1 Sunday at the Bass-Rudd Tennis Center.

The Lady Raiders took the doubles point to begin the match as Michaela Gridlin and Tanja Buchheim teamed to defeat Julie Penn and Melisa San Martin 8-4 at No.2 and Carien Venter and Inge Weirich defeated Paige Eber and Mariana Torres 8-3 at No. 3. Louisville's Katie McLaughlin and Kelly Whitler edged Manon Kruse and Stacy Varnell 9-7 at the top seed.

In singles action, Kruse defeated McLaughlin 6-1, 6-1 at No. 1. Middle Tennessee's Weirich, Gridling, Venter and Niger Kaur each recorded wins at Nos. 3-6 respectively. U of L's only singles point came from Penn, as she defeated Buccheim 6-1, 6-1 at the two-spot.

Middle Tennessee improves to 4-8 on the season.

Louisville (4-11) will travel to Santa Barbara, Calif. March 11, where they will play UC Sata Barbara and Long Beach State on March 13.


Middle Tennessee 6 - Louisville 1SINGLES1 - Manon Kruse (MT) d. Katie McLaughlin (UL) 6-1, 6-12 - Julie Penn (UL) d. Tanja Buccheim (MT) 6-1, 6-13 - Inge Weirich (MT) d. Kelly Whitler (UL) 6-3, 6-34 - Michaela Gridling (MT) d. Paige Eber (UL) 6-0, 6-25 - Carien Venter (MT) d. Kelly Kiehna (UL) 6-2, 6-16 - Niger Kaur (MT) d. Mariana Torres (UL) 6-4, 6-1DOUBLES1 - McLaughlin/Whitler (UL) d. Kruse/Stacy Varnell (MT) 9-72 - Gridling/Buccheim (MT) d. Penn/San Martin (UL) 8-43 - Venter/Weirich (MT) d. Eber/Torres (UL) 8-3