Tribe Falls at No. 7 Northwestern

W&M will host No. 21 Wake Forest to open the home portion of its schedule on Saturday, Jan. 26.

01/20/08 4:30PM

Evanston, Ill. - The No. 15-ranked William and Mary women’s tennis team dropped the second of its two road matches to open the season, falling 7-0 to No. 7 Northwestern on Sunday, Jan. 20. W&M opened the season with a victory over Michigan State on Saturday and is 1-1 on the year.

The best matches of the day came at the No. 1 and No. 2 singles slots where senior Megan Moulton-Levy and junior Kat Zoricic competed against two of the top-10 players in the ITA national singles rankings. At top singles slot, Moulton-Levy, who is ranked No. 12 nationally, won the opening set against No. 2-ranked Maria Mosolova, 6-2. The Wildcat freshman, who defeated Moulton-Levy in three sets at the ITA National Indoor Championship, took the second set, 6-3. With the outcome of the team match already decided, the competitors played a 10-point super tiebreaker with Mosolova claiming the 10-3 win.

Zoricic put up a similarly impressive fight at the No. 2 slot against No. 9-ranked Georgia Rose, who played exclusively at the No. 1 singles position for Northwestern last season. After dropping the first set to Rose, 6-3, Zoricic rallied to take the second, 6-3, and even things up. Rose, though, claimed the victory with a 10-6 third-set super tiebreaker win.

The Tribe will open the home portion of its schedule on Saturday, Jan. 26, when it hosts No. 21 Wake Forest at 2 p.m. The rematch of the NCAA Regional final between the Tribe and Demon Deacons will be played at the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center. Last season, W&M downed Wake Forest twice, including a 5-2 victory during the regular season and a 4-1 win in the NCAA Tournament.

#7 Northwestern 7, #15 William and Mary 0
Singles:
No. 1 - #2 Maria Mosolova (NU) def. #12 Megan Moulton-Levy (W&M) - 2-6, 6-3, 10-3
No. 2 – #9 Georgia Rose (NU) def. #83 Kat Zoricic (W&M) - 6-3, 3-6, 10-6
No. 3 - #20 Samantha Murray (NU) def. #55 Ragini Acharya (W&M) - 6-0, 6-4
No. 4 - #99 Nazlie Ghazal (NU) def. Klaudyna Kasztelaniec (W&M) - 6-3, 6-0
No. 5 - #68 Lauren Lui (NU) def. Magdalena Bresson (W&M) - 6-0, 6-1
No. 6 - Suzie Matzenauer (NU) def. Lauren Sabacinski (W&M) - 6-1, 6-2


Doubles:
No. 1 - #7 Lui/Murray (NU) def. #46 Moulton-Levy/Zoricic (W&M), 8-5
No. 2 - Conill/Rose (NU) def. Acharya/Bresson (W&M), 8-6
No. 3 - Ghazal/Mosolova (NU) def. Barbara Zidek/Kasztelaniec (W&M), 8-6