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Friday, April 25, 2003
FIU upsets Middle Tennessee, moves
on at Sun Belt Championships
ecording
the first upset of the weekend, No. 6-seeded FIU (7-13) moved on at
the Sun Belt Conference Championships in Mobile, Ala., with a 4-2 victory
over third-seeded Middle Tennessee, in quarterfinals play.
The win avenged an earlier 4-2 defeat at the hands
of the Lady Raiders (9-11) that closed out the regular season last March
31.
FIU scored the
first point Friday, taking both of the completed doubles matches. The
Golden Panthers Mei
Ly and Bruna
Discordia set the tone, defeating the 26th-ranked and all-conference
tandem of Manon Kruse and Stacy Varnell, 8-4, at No. 1. FIU claimed
the point after Desanka
Jovanovic and Courtney
Jonson won their second doubles match of the day, this time, an
8-2 decision over Carien Venter and Emily Vest at No. 2.
Middle Tennessee hung tough in the early going of singles.
Discordia lost at No. 1 to the 46th-ranked Kruse, 6-1, 6-2. And after
Jonson won her team-leading 13th match of the spring, 6-1, 6-3, against
Vest, MT’s Jennifer Klaschka knotted up the match at 2-2 by defeating
Ly, 6-2, 6-3, at No. 2.
But the Golden
Panthers closed out the match with wins at No. 4-5. Davina
Duronio beat Laura McNamara, 7-5, 6-2, at five, and then Christine
Suard prevailed with a 7-6 (5), 6-4 decision over Varnell, at the
fourth spot.
FIU moves on to the tournament semifinals and a date
with second-seeded Denver, Saturday morning beginning at 9:00 a.m. (ET).
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Final: FIU 4,
Middle Tennessee
2
Mobile, Ala.
Doubles
1. Discordia/Ly (FIU)
def. #26 Kruse/Varnell (MT) 8-4.
2. Jonson/Jovanovic (FIU) def. Venter/Vest (MT) 8-2.
3. Duronio/Suard (FIU) vs. Klaschka/McNamara (MT), dnf.
Singles
1. #46 Manon Kruse (MT) def. Bruna
Discordia (FIU) 6-1, 6-2.
2. Jennifer Klaschka (MT) def. Mei
Ly (FIU) 6-2, 6-3.
3. Desanka
Jovanovic (FIU) vs. Carien Venter (MT), dnf.
4. Christine
Suard (FIU) def. Stacy Varnell (MT) 7-6 (5), 6-4
5. Davina
Duronio (FIU) def. Laura McNamara (MT) 7-5, 6-2
6. Courtney
Jonson (FIU) def. Emily Vest, 6-1, 6-3.
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