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Alyssa Leffler competed against the Vikings and Lady Reds at both No. 2 singles and No. 2 doubles.
Alyssa Leffler competed against the Vikings and Lady Reds at both No. 2 singles and No. 2 doubles.

Titans Suffer A Pair Of Defeats In Return To Action

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The UW-Oshkosh women's tennis team resumed action after nearly a five-month hiatus and suffered 8-1 defeats to both Augustana College (Ill.) and Carthage College on Sunday (March 12) at the Oshkosh YMCA Tennis Center.

UW-Oshkosh, which last competed at the WIAC Championship on Oct. 23, received wins from Monica Micoliczyk at No. 6 singles against Augustana College and Lesley Kutnink at No. 5 singles against Carthage College.

Micoliczyk gave UW-Oshkosh (7-5) its lone team point against Augustana College (16-1) with her 6-2, 6-1 victory over Kelsey Snodgrass.

Augustana College swept all three doubles contests, including 8-6 wins by Lauren Goggin and Madeline Lombardi in the first flight and Snodgrass and Caitlyn Schaffer in the third. Goggin and Lombardi defeated Hannah Peters and Bailey Sagen while Schaffer and Snodgrass ousted Kutnink and Ashlee Polena.

The Vikings took the No. 2 doubles match as Vicki Andonova and Zeana Badawi outscored Samantha Koppa and Alyssa Leffler, 8-2.

Augustana College earned four of its five individual victories in straight sets, with the only exception being Andonova's 3-6, 7-5 (10-3) win over Kutnink in the fourth flight.

Winning in the minimum sets for the Vikings were Goggin in the first flight, Schaffer in the second, Badawi in the third and Lombardi in the fifth.

Goggin defeated Sagen, 6-2, 6-0, while Schaffer ousted Leffler, 6-3, 6-2, and Badawi beat Peters, 6-2, 6-3. Lombardi was a 6-3, 6-4 winner over Koppa.

Kutnink, who transferred to UW-Oshkosh from St. Catherine University (Minn.) at the end of the fall semester, gave the Titans their lone team point against Carthage College with her 6-3, 7-6 (6) win over Eliza Barber.

The Lady Reds captured all three doubles matches, including an 8-4 victory by Angelica Emmanouil and Max Mella over Peters and Sagen in the first flight.

Carthage College also collected an 8-3 victory by Casey Frommer and Kristen Kalinka over Koppa and Leffler in the second flight, and an 8-2 win by Barber and Natalie Favia over Kutnink and Polena in the third.

The Lady Reds had a pair of comfortable wins in singles play as Favia defeated Micoliczyk, 6-0, 6-0, in the sixth flight while Kalinka ousted Koppa, 6-1, 6-0, in the fourth.

Other individual winners for Carthage College (8-3) were Frommer in the first flight, Mella in the second and Emmanouil in the third.

Frommer was a 6-4, 6-3 winner over Sagen while Mella was a 7-5, 6-1 victor over Leffler. Emmanouil took her contest by a 6-2, 6-1 result over Peters.

UW-Oshkosh is off until it plays Union College (N.Y.) and University of St. Thomas (Minn.) on March 20 in Hilton Head, S.C.