MISSOULA — The Montana ladies’s tennis workforce wrapped up its second occasion of the autumn match season with stable outcomes towards a number of the area’s high groups on the Barb Chandler Basic at Boise State this previous weekend.
Led by senior Olivia Oosterbaan in singles, Montana made third-place match appearances in two totally different brackets with seven groups competing within the mini-dual format.
Montana joined Idaho, Idaho State, Montana State, Utah, Weber State, and Boise State on the Barb Chandler, a fixture on UM’s fall tourney calendar.
Oosterbaan paced the Griz by sweeping her singles opponents within the Orange Flight to complete 3-0 on the weekend, with wins over gamers from Weber State and Boise State.
“Olivia is taking part in with confidence and feeling robust bodily. She performed with poise and stayed dialed in on her methods with every match,” UM coach Steve Ascher mentioned.
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“General, we discovered a ton about what we have to work on to proceed to develop as gamers and a workforce this weekend. We’re excited for the short turnaround as we head out to Cheney subsequent week.”
Montana’s Grace Haugen and Lauren Dunlap pair took third place as a workforce within the Blue Flight with an general 3-1 win towards opponents from Utah after the Utes have been compelled to withdraw. To get there, Haugen gained a three-set match over Boise State’s Joana Baptista (4-6, 6-2, 6-0) to assist the Griz advance.
Oosterbaan and her doubles accomplice Maria Goheen beat Weber State’s Hill/Ferreira pair 6-4, and Oosterbaan defeated Hill once more on day one singles play within the Orange flights to advance the Griz to the semifinal.
Oosterbaan picked up one other singles win on day two within the semifinal spherical, beating Boise State’s Ana Conde Vendrell in straight units 6-4, 6-4. Within the third place spherical of the flight, she defeated Megan Davies of WSU 7-5, 6-3, to comb singles play for the weekend.
Oosterbaan and Murphy every picked up wins within the orange flight, with Oosterbaan going 3-0 in singles and Murphy successful a comfort remaining with a 6-4, 6-1 win over Idaho’s Saffron Dowse.
Grizzly freshman Hailey Murphy additionally picked up two singles wins within the Orange bracket, beating Leah Karuvilla of Idaho State 7-5, 1-6, 1-0(5) and Saffron Dowse of Idaho (6-4, 6-1) to win a comfort remaining.
Montana now turns its consideration to the Japanese Washington Invite subsequent weekend earlier than heading to the premiere occasion of the autumn on the ITA Mountain Regional in Las Vegas Oct. 12-15.