Indian Wells, Calif. - The Pacific women's tennis team pulled out a 4-3 victory over UC Santa Barbara in the quarterfinal round of the 2011 Big West Conference Tennis Championship at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. The match lasted nearly five hours.  The match began at 3:00 in the afternoon and lasted until 7:55 in the evening.

Freshman Susan Te (Davis, Calif.) defeated UC Santa Barbara's Kiersten Meehan at the No. 5 singles spot 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-1 in a match that lasted nearly four hours.  This monumentous match clinched the win for the Tigers, but the battle was tough and lasted roughly four hours.

Coach Chiene commented on Te's match stating that as Susan was finishing a tiebreak in the first set and lost it, everyone else had already completed their matches; and Susan was barely starting the second set.  "It was a real gutsy performance, but she is very coachable, and she refused to lose, she was in it to win it."

The Tigers advance to the semifinal round and will face Long Beach State on Saturday, April 30 at 3:00 in the afternoon.  This is the first time the Tigers will have competed in the semifinals since 2005.

Match Results:

Doubles: Winner:

1. Natalia Lozano/ Jordan Dockendorf vs. Jenifer Widjaja / Julia Hansen  Pacific 8-5

2. Sofia Novak/ Michelle Murphy vs. Shabby Eslami / Summer Irvin  UC Santa Barbara 8-3

3. Kiersten Meehan/ Jill Damion vs. Olga Gumenyuk / Susan Te  UC Santa Barbara 8-0

Order of finish: 3, 1, 2*

Singles: Winner:

1. Natalia Lozano vs. Jenifer Widjaja Widjaja (PAC) 6-1, 6-2

2. Sofia Novak vs. Julia Hansen Hansen (PAC) 6-3, 7-5

3. Jill Damion vs. Olga Gumenyuk Damion (UCSB) 6-0, 6-2

4. Jordan Dockendorf vs. Shabby Eslami Eslami (PAC) 6-4, 7-5

5. Kiersten Meehan vs. Susan Te Te (PAC) 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-1

6. Paola Cos vs. Kateryna Nezhura Cos (UCSB) 6-4, 6-3

Order of finish: 3, 1, 6, 4, 2, 5**

FINAL SCORE

(#5) Pacific 4, (#4) UC Santa Barbara 3

Season Records: PAC (9-11), UCSB (13-10)