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UAB Defeated By Southern Miss
4/2/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
April 2, 2005
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The UAB women's tennis team lost 5-2 to Conference USA foe Southern Miss on Saturday.
UAB dropped the doubles point, 2-1, and then lost four of the six singles matches in the defeat. The loss puts UAB at 10-5 on the season and 2-2 in C-USA action.
Blazers' Gulsah Esen and Ornischa Maier-Knapp won the No. 1 doubles match over Nikhila Narra and Sherry Price, 8-6. Southern Miss then took the next two matches as Nicola Slater and Grace Kammerer defeated UAB's Julia von Samson and Antonia Nugent, 8-2. Jennifer Sibille and Ali Blackett topped the Blazers' Annemieke Elsholz and Jana Wild, 8-6, on court No. 3.
In singles play, UAB won the points at No. 4 and No. 6 as Samrin Tanzeem knocked off Kammerer, 6-3, 6-1, and Nugent blanked Sibille, 6-0, 6-0. Southern Miss' Slater topped Maier-Knapp, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3, while Price topped Esen at No. 2 singles, 6-4, 6-1. Narra defeated von Samson, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4, in the No. 3 slot, and Blackett beat Elsholz, 6-1, 6-0, at No. 5.
UAB returns to action on Sunday as the Blazers host Middle Tennessee State at 1 p.m. at the Brook Highland Racquet Club.
Southern Miss 5, UAB 2
Singles
No. 1: Nicola Slater (USM) def. Ornischa Maier-Knapp (UAB) 2-6, 6-3, 6-3
No. 2: Sherry Price (USM) def. Gulsah Esen (UAB) 6-4, 6-1
No. 3: Nikhila Narra (USM) def. Julia von Samson (UAB) 6-2, 3-6, 6-4
No. 4: Samrin Tanzeem (UAB) def. Grace Kammerer (USM) 6-3, 6-1
No. 5: Ali Blackett (USM) def. Annemieke Elsholz (UAB) 6-1, 6-0
No. 6: Antonia Nugent (UAB) def. Jennifer Sibille (USM) 6-0, 6-0
Doubles
No. 1: Gulsah Esen/Ornischa Maier-Knapp (UAB) def. Nikhila Narra/Sherry Price (USM) 8-6
No. 2: Nicola Slater/Grace Kammerer (USM) def. Julia von Samson/Antonia Nugent (UAB) 8-2
No. 3: Jennifer Sibille/Ali Blackett (USM) def. Annemieke Elsholz/Jana Wild (UAB) 8-6
