April 22, 2007

Missoula, MT-- ISU women's tennis was swept by University of Montana 7-0 Sunday afternoon. The Bengals' season ends with a 2-10 record and a Big Sky record of 0-7. Montana ends their season with a 5-16 record and a Big Sky record of 3-4. Montana will be the No. 5 seed for the Big Sky Conference.

The Bengals lost three of the three doubles matches to put them behind 1-0 early in the match. Anastasia Sazykina and Stephanie Roldan fought hard but were defeated by Cheyne Ursich and Danni Paulson 8-5 at the number two doubles spot.

Idaho State then lost six of the six singles contests to take the 7-0 loss. Freshman, Lewis played tough but fell to Liz Walker 6-4, 6-3 at the number one singles spot. Freshman, Sophie Dang played tough but was defeated by Paulson 6-3, 7-6 (7-1) at the number three singles spot. Senior, Katherine Zigars fell to Cheyne Ursich 6-4, 7-5 at number four singles. Anastasia Sazykina was defeated by Kayla Moyse 6-3, 6-4 at number six singles.

Doubles:

1. Castello/Walker (UM) def. Zigars/Espinosa (ISU) 8-3

2. Ursich/Paulson (UM) def. Sazykina/Roldan (ISU) 8-5

3. Nowak/Souza (UM) def. Lewis/Dang (ISU) 8-4

Singles:

1. Liz Walker (UM) def. Lisel Lewis (ISU) 6-4, 6-3

2. Mari Castello (UM) def. Valerie Espinosa (ISU) 6-0, 6-1

3. Danni Paulson (UM) def. Sophie Dang (ISU) 6-3, 7-6 (7-1)

4. Cheyne Ursich (UM) def. Katherine Zigars (ISU) 6-4, 7-5

5. Martyna Nowak (UM) def. Stephanie Roldan (ISU) 6-0, 6-3

6. Kayla Moyse (UM) def. Anastasia Sazykina (ISU) 6-3, 6-4

Final Score: UM 7, ISU 0

Order of finish: Doubles (1,3,2); Singles (2,1,5,6,3,4)