Women’s Tennis Sweep LSU 7-0

3/12/2006

BATON ROUGE, La. – The Commodores (12-2) improved their SEC record to a perfect 4-0 on Sunday when they defeated LSU (7-5, 0-4) in Baton Rouge.

The Tigers were only able to pull off one win in the contest at No. 2 doubles, when Marina Chiarelli/Anastasiya Dubova defeated Amanda Fish/Taka Bertrand 8-4. The loss followed a powerful win by VU’s No.1 tandem Maggie
Yahner/Amanda Taylor against LSU’s Mykala Hedberg/Tiffany Tucker 8-0.

VU’s freshmen pair of Liberty Sveke and Courtney Ulery clinched the doubles point when they defeated Camila Caliari/Daysi Espinal 8-6.

The ‘Dores only played one tie-breaker set, at No. 2 singles, where Bertrand eventually defeated Marina Chiarelli (3-6,6-3, 10-6).

Amanda Fish pulled out a strong win at No. 1 by holding LSU’s Mykala Hedberg to just 4 games in two sets, winning 6-1, 6-3.

Freshman Liberty Sveke notched another win after making her SEC singles debut on Friday against Arkansas. Sveke defeated Daysi Espinal 6-1, 6-1 to put the Commodores up 3-0.

After winning two of three road matches last week, the ‘Dores will return to Nashville to host Texas on Friday.

MATCH RESULTS

#12 Vanderbilt 7, #41 LSU 0

Singles competition
1. #23 Amanda Fish (VU) def. Mykala Hedberg (LSU) 6-1, 6-3
2. #40 Taka Bertrand (VU) def. Marina Chiarelli (LSU) 3-6, 6-3, 10-6
3. Amanda Taylor (VU) def. Anastasiya Dubova (LSU) 6-2, 7-5
4. Courtney Ulery (VU) def. Tiffany Tucker (LSU) 6-2, 6-4
5. #123 Caroline Ferrell (VU) def. Camila Caliari (LSU) 6-1, 1-0, retired
6. Liberty Sveke (VU) def. Daysi Espinal (LSU) 6-1, 6-1

Doubles competition
1. Amanda Taylor/Maggie Yahner (VU) def. Mykala Hedberg/Tiffany Tucker (LSU) 8-0
2. Marina Chiarelli/Anastasiya Dubova (LSU) def. Taka Bertrand/Amanda Fish(VU) 8-4
3. Courtney Ulery/Liberty Sveke (VU) def. Camila Caliari/Daysi Espinal (LSU) 8-6

Match Notes:
Vanderbilt 12-2 (4-0 SEC); National ranking #12
LSU 7-5 (0-4 SEC); National ranking #41
Order of finish: Doubles (1,2,3); Singles (5,6,1,4,2,3