April 1, 2007

Stockton, Calif. - The Pacific women's tennis team suffered a 6-1 loss to conference rival UC Santa Barbara on Saturday, April 1st at the Hal Nelson Tennis Courts.

With the loss, the Tigers fall to 6-10, 1-4 in the Big West, while the Gauchos improve to 8-6, 4-1 in Big West action.

Pacific, playing without their No. 1, senior Vana Mrazovic (Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro) due to injury, was forced to shuffle the lineup in both singles and doubles, losing the doubles point to begin the match down 1-0.

UC Santa Barbara took down the first two singles matches to finish, the No. 4 and No. 1 positions to take a 3-0 before Pacific answered back. Moving up to the No. 3 spot, junior Helen Schneider (Dernbach, Germany) defeated Charlotte Scatliffe 6-3, 6-4 to pull Pacific to within two at 3-1.

At the time of Schneider's point being posted, the Tigers were ahead in two other matches one game to none, and trailing in a third match but with an advantage in game two. The Gauchos turned it on, making a comeback in game two of the No. 5 singles to win that point, and making two comebacks in the matches they trailed at No. 2 and No. 6 singles, forcing and winning the super tiebreakers to take home a 6-1 victory.

Pacific is back in action on Saturday, April 7th as they travel to Sacramento State for a 1pm match.

Doubles:
No. 1 Scatliffe/Simil(UCSB) d. Fisher/Twarowska (PAC) 8-1
No. 2 Arens/Tamborini (PAC) d. Bjornstrom/Onaga (UCSB 8-6
No. 3 Hausman/Kausen (UCSB) d. Schneider/Schuhmacher (PAC) 9-7
Order of Finish: No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 (Deciding Match for Doubles Point)

Singles:
No. 1 Marta Simic (UCSB) d. Jolanta Twarowska (PAC) 6-4, 6-2
No. 2 Carina Bjornstrom (UCSB) d. Svenja Arens (PAC) 5-7, 6-4, 1-0 (3)
No. 3 Helen Schneider (PAC) d. Charlotte Scatliffe (UCSB) 6-3, 6-4
No. 4 Asagi Onaga (UCSB) d. Carla Tamborini (PAC) 6-2, 6-3
No. 5 Tova Hausman (UCSB) d. Sasha Fisher 7-6 (1), 6-3
No. 6 Brittany Kausen (UCSB) d. Clara Schuhmacher (PAC) 3-6, 7-6 (5) 1-0 (8)
Order of Finish: No. 4, No. 1, No. 3, No. 5 (Deciding Point), No. 2, No. 6