Cow­girl ten­nis con­cludes reg­u­lar sea­son with two wins

Symona Symkova returns a vol­ley dur­ing the first match of the day. (Jeremy Stegall/LFP)

The Wyoming Cow­girl ten­nis team fin­ished its reg­u­lar sea­son strong with a pair of Moun­tain West Con­fer­ence wins over Col­orado State and Air Force last week.

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UW ten­nis earns road split

The Wyoming Cow­girl ten­nis team split a pair of Moun­tain West Con­fer­ence matches last week­end in San Diego, Calif., as they edged host and No. 75-ranked San Diego State, 4–3, and fell 6–1 to the No. 36-ranked UNLV Rebels.

Wyoming (12−7, 3–3 MWC) came from behind to win the piv­otal dou­bles point against San Diego State, which proved to be the decid­ing fac­tor in the tough road match.

“We fought very hard today,” said UW coach Kati Gyu­lai in a news release. “We were down in dou­bles 6–3 and hung in there to come back and win it in a tie-breaker, which put us up 1–0. At that point, we truly believed that we could win and we played liked it. We are extremely happy about this victory.”

Kin van Ginkel and Simona Synkova of UW fell behind 6–3 to sis­ters Rox­anne Elli­son and Sierra Elli­son in the No. 1 spot, but bat­tled back to win , 9–8 (1). Cow­girls Alexan­dra Kovacs and Rebecca Berger won eas­ily over Julia Trunk and Julia Wais at the No. 2 posi­tion, 8–2, while Paloma Navarro and Sarah Sum­mer­field fell 8–2 to Ali­cia Aguilar and Olivia Col­man of SDSU, 8–2.

Synkova, van Ginkel and Berger won their sin­gles matches and Sum­mer­field, Kovacs and Sasa Nem­cova lost.

The fol­low­ing morn­ing, the Cow­girls were over­whelmed by a strong UNLV team, who clinched sec­ond place in the MWC behind cham­pion Utah. The Rebels swept the dou­bles matches and stormed through the sin­gles events, until Nem­cova got UW on the board with a three-set win over Rumyana Terzieva, 6–3, 5–7, 1–0 (10−6), in the final match of the day.

Wyoming will con­clude its reg­u­lar sea­son this week with Front Range trips to rivals Col­orado State and Air Force. The Cow­girls will be in Fort Collins to face the Rams on Fri­day at 1 p.m., and then head to Col­orado Springs and play the Fal­cons at 2 p.m. on Saturday.

Cow­girls fall to Utah

The Wyoming Cow­girls ended their three-game home stand with a 7–0 loss to the No. 39-ranked Utah Utes on Sun­day after­noon at the UW Ten­nis Complex.

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