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PANTHERS COME UP BIG IN SINGLES, DEFEAT COLORADO COLLEGE

ORANGE, Calif. – The Chapman University women’s tennis team won five out of six matches in singles play to clinch a 6-3 victory over visiting Colorado College at the Chapman Tennis Courts on Friday afternoon. The Panthers improved to 9-5 overall with the win.

Freshman No. 1 singles player Liz Lewis earned her 12th victory in 14 singles matches this spring with a 6-1, 6-0 straight sets victory over Colorado’s Kelsey Smith. Freshman Kelley Fox needed a tiebreak victory in the third set to earn the win in the No. 2 singles match 6-4, 3-6, 7-6. Fox improved to 12-6 this year and has won five of her last six matches in singles play.

Doubles partners Roxanne Kaiden and Laura Robinson earned Chapman’s only point in doubles play with an 8-2 win, as the Panthers lost two out of three to the Tigers. Kaiden’s singles win 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 was the deciding match for Chapman, which has won two of its last three matches at home.

Doubles:
1) Smith/Zipperstein (CC) def. Lewis/Fox (CU) 9-7
2) Kaiden/Robinson (CU) def. Evans/Swenson (CC) 8-2
3) Bryant/Delaney (CC) def Ezekiel/Trippel (CU)  8-6

Singles:
1) Liz Lewis (CU) def. Kelsey Smith (CC) 6-1, 6-0
2) Kelley Fox (CU) def. Jordan Evans (CC) 6-4, 3-6, 7-6
3) Sheenan Trippel (CU) def. Leah Zipperstein (CC) 6-0, 6-2
4) Roxanne Kaiden (CU) def. Sally Bryant (CC) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
5) Britt Swenson (CC) def. Sabrina Ezekiel (CU) 6-4, 1-6 (10-4)
6) Laura Robinson (CU) def. Sarah Delaney (CC) 6-4, 6-3

 
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