Tennis Falls to UW-Whitewater in Season Opener

WHITEWATER, Wis.- In the season-opening match on Friday (Sept. 1), UW-Oshkosh women's tennis, the Titans fell 8-1 to the 16-time WIAC defending champion UW-Whitewater squad.

UW-Whitewater (1-0, 1-0 WIAC) swept the six singles matches and won two of the three doubles contests.

UW-Oshkosh's (0-1, 0-1 WIAC) No. 3 doubles partners, freshmen Jameson Gregory and Kayla Gibbs, gave it the only win of the day. They outscored the Warhawks' Sarah Ferguson and Megan Griswold 8-4 over 41 minutes of play.

The Warhawks won at No. 1 doubles, with Cassandra Lee and Gracie Ha outscoring Olivia Pathan and Alysa Pattee 8-5. Warhawks Mackenzie Lindow and Alexandra Repplier won the No. 2 doubles 8-2 over Courtney Carpenter and Ella Nguyen.

In the No. 1 singles matchup, Lee defeated Pethan (6-0, 6-2), Pattee fell to Kellie Ha in the No. 2 singles in scores of (6-0, 6-4), Nguyen dropped the No. 3 flight to Gracie Ha (6-0, 6-1), Gregory lost the No. 4 flight to Molly Asfeld in matching scores of 6-2, Jenna Nolde fell in the No. 5 matchup against Lindow (6-0, 6-2) and Gibbs pushed the No. 6 match to three sets with a 7-6 win in the second, but eventually lost to Ashley Adkission (6-3, 7-6, 10-3).

The Titans will play in Whitewater again on Saturday (Sept. 2) for the UW-Whitewater Fall Tournament, starting at 9 a.m.