University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics

Cajuns Go 2 for 2 on Sunday
3/22/2009 5:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
LAFAYETTE- Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns women's tennis team
hosted both ULM and McNeese State Sunday. The Cajuns were able to battle the
Warhawks, Cowgirls and the sun to finish the day 2-0.
The Cajuns beat ULM Warhawks on a
beautiful Sunday afternoon 6-1.
Louisiana won two out of the three doubles matches to take a quick 1-0 lead.
The team of Julia Mazinova and Mia Gordon defeated ULM's Ana Burjaili and Lena
Satge 8-1. Angela Dangond and Milou Israel defeated Warhawks Vivian Polak and
Sharon Makhanya 8-4. Marina Ruiz de Gauna and Tara Vasovic lost to ULM's
Claire Clark and Marion Lehmann.
Leading off for the Cajuns was Gordon's 6-4, 6-2 win over
ULM's Satge. This gave the Cajuns a 2-0 advantage.
The Warhawks only win of the game came from ULM's Lehmann defeat over UL's
Vasovic 6-0, 7-5.
Louisiana's Mazinova defeated ULM's Burjaili 6-1, 6-0. This gave the
Cajuns a 3-1 lead.
UL's Dangond beat Polak 6-4, 6-4, securing the Cajuns win over ULM.
Ruiz de Gauna defeated her opponent, Makhanya 6-2, 7-5.
UL's Israel lost her first set to Clark 6-4, but came back in the second set
and beat Clark 6-4. In the tie-breaker, Israel defeated Clark 10-6, and
gave the Cajuns a 6-1 win. The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns played McNeese
State in the second part of their doubleheader Sunday, winning 6-1.
UL won all three of their doubles matches. The team of Julie Mazinova and
Mia Gordon defeated MSU's Victoria Martinez and Ralista Pirdopska 8-3.
UL 6
? McNeese 1
The team of Angela Dangond and Milou Israel beat Cowgirls
Petra Gudelj and Maria Frausto 8-3. The team of Marina Ruiz de Gauna and
Tara Vasovic defeated MSU's Inga Efimenko and Tea Tvrtkovic 8-5.
Louisiana entered the singles portion with a 1-0 lead.
The Cajuns won five out of the six singles matches. On court one; Dangond
defeated Pirdopska 6-0, 6-3. UL's Mazinova defeated MSU's Martinez 6-1,
6-3. Louisiana's Israel defeated Cowgirl Gudelj 6-0, 6-4. Cajun
Gordon defeated MSU's Tvrtkovic 6-4, 6-2. UL's Ruiz de Gauna beat MSU's
Frausto 6-2, 6-3.
McNeese's only win came from the upset of UL's Vasovic. Vasovic was
defeated by Efimenko 7-5, 6-1.
The Cajuns will travel to Florida next weekend to take on University of Central
Florida, Florida International and Florida Atlantic. UL will be back at
Cajun Courts for the last time this season Sunday, April 5 to face South
Alabama at 10:00 a.m.