The University of Alabama at Birmingham Athletics
UAB Women's Tennis Closes Fall Regional Play
10/22/2011 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Oct. 22, 2011
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Rachel Daniell suffered a three-set loss in the main draw consolation bracket and Menanteau Moolman fell in the B flight semifinals on Saturday for the UAB women's tennis team at Samford in the USTA/ITA Southern Regional.
Daniell won her opening set, 6-3, against Samford's Madelie Janse Van Rensburg before dropping the second set, 6-2, and then falling by a 10-6 score in a match tiebreaker for the third set.
Moolman, who won her first two matches on Friday to advance to Saturday's B flight semifinals, lost to Vivian Polak of Louisiana-Monroe, 7-5, 6-2.
UAB's Paula Alvarez and Isabel Fernandez, who were also competing in the singles main draw this weekend, were both eliminated a day earlier.
The Blazers also had a pair of teams eliminated from the consolation doubles draw Saturday. Fernandez and Caroline Faught narrowly lost, 9-7, to Raisa Guasti and Raphaela Lima of Jacksonville State, while Daniell and Moolman dropped an 8-4 decision to Olga Bazhanova and Amy Williams of Northwestern State.
UAB returns to action next weekend as it closes its fall schedule at the Southern Miss Fall Invitational. Play begins on Friday in Hattiesburg, Miss.
