W&M Wins 10th Straight, Sweeping No. 46 Denver

The College won its seventh match of the season over a ranked foe.

03/11/07 11:00PM

Denver, Colo. - The No. 9 William and Mary women’s tennis team rolled to its 10th straight victory to open the 2007 season, sweeping No. 46 Denver, 7-0, on March 11. The College opened a three-match Spring Break road swing in Colorado with the victory. It marked the seventh ranked foe the College has defeated this season.

The College cruised to a trio of wins in doubles to clinch the opening point of the match. The Tribe’s top-ranked duo of senior Megan Moulton-Levy and sophomore Katarina Zoricic downed Ute Schnoy and Rachel Sackmaster at the No. 1 slot, 8-2. The College’s freshman tandem of Magdalena Bresson and Ragini Acharya cruised past Kyla Iwinski and Julia Bauregger, 8-3, at the No. 2 position. The sophomore pair of Barbara Zidek and Klaudyna Kasztelaniec rounded out the College’s sweep with an 8-2 victory over Lorinda Boothman and Annette Aksdal at the No. 3 position.

Zoricic notched the first victory over her W&M career at the No. 1 singles position. The 72nd-ranked player nationally defeated Denver’s No. 124 ranked Aksdal, 6-0, 6-3. Freshman Lauren Sabacinski and Zidek claimed straight-set victories at the No. 5 and No. 6 to ice the Tribe team victory. Sabacinski cruised past Iwinski, 6-3, 6-2, at the No. 5 slot, while Zidek won by an identical score over Boothman at the No. 6 position.

Fresh off her first collegiate ranking, Acharya won her second match over a ranked foe this season, claiming a three-set affair over No. 90 Schnoy. After dropping the first set, 6-0, the No. 96-ranked player nationally claimed the next two sets, 6-2, 6-1, for her 14th straight win.

Kasztelaniec and Bresson both claimed three-set, come-from-behind wins at the No. 3 and No. 4 slots, respectively. Kasztelaniec, who returned to the Tribe line-up for the first time in over a month, dropped the first set, 6-2, to Bauregger, before evening the contest with a 6-4 win in the second. She claimed the match with the third-set super tiebreaker win, 11-9. Bresson dropped the first set, 7-5, but rebounded to take the second and third sets, 6-1, 6-1, over Sackmaster.

The Tribe will return to action against Air Force on Monday, March 12, at 5 p.m. The College will close the trip at No. 30 Colorado on Wednesday, March 14. The match with the Buffaloes is slated for 4 p.m. in Boulder.

Match Notes
The Tribe continued the best start in school history winning its 10th straight match ... Of the Tribe’s 10 victories, seven have come against ranked foes ... Moulton-Levy and Zoricic pushed their doubles winning streak to 20 with its win against Denver ... The pair improved to 29-1 overall on the season ... Kasztelaniec and Zidek won their fifth straight as a pair and improved to 5-1 overall ... Acharya and Bresson are 11-2 as a team, including a 7-1 mark at the No. 2 doubles position ... Acharya improved to 19-4 overall in singles, winning her 14th straight singles match ... It marked Acharya’s first career win at the No. 2 position as she improved to 10-0 in dual matches ... She also improved to 2-1 against ranked foes this season ... Bresson won her fourth straight match and improved to 18-9 overall and 4-2 at the No. 4 singles position ... Kasztelaniec returned to the Tribe line-up for the first time since Jan. 28 against Virginia ... She improved to 15-5 in singles ... Sabacinski won her fifth straight in singles and has claimed nine of her last 10 contests ... She is 17-4 overall and 6-1 during the dual-match season ... Zidek upped her winning streak to five, marking her second winning streak of five or more matches this season ... Zidek improved to 17-9 overall ... Zoricic tied Moulton-Levy for the team-lead in singles victories with her 21st against Denver ... It marked Zoricic’s first career win at the No. 1 singles position ... She also won her fourth match against ranked competition this season.

#9 William & Mary 7, #46 Denver 0
Singles
No. 1 - #72 Katarina Zoricic (W&M) def. #124 Annette Aksdal (DEN) - 6-0, 6-3
No. 2 - #96 Ragini Acharya (W&M) def. #90 Ute Schnoy (DEN) - 0-6, 6-2, 6-1
No. 3 - Klaudyna Kasztelaniec (W&M) def. Julia Bauregger (DEN) - 2-6, 6-4, 11-9
No. 4 - Magdalena Bresson (W&M) def. Rachel Sackmaster (DEN) - 5-7, 6-1, 6-1
No. 5 - Lauren Sabacinski (W&M) def. Kyla Iwinski (DEN) - 6-3, 6-2
No. 6 - Barbara Zidek (W&M) def. Lorinda Boothman (DEN) - 6-3, 6-2

Doubles
No. 1 - #1 Moulton-Levy/Zoricic (W&M) def. Schnoy/Sackmaster (DEN) - 8-2
No. 2 - Bresson/Acharya (W&M) def. Iwinski/Bauregger (DEN) - 8-3
No. 3 - Zidek/Kasztelaniec (W&M) def. Boothman/Aksdal (DEN) - 8-2