By: Justin DeWeese
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Box Score 2 BOURBONNAIS, Ill. - Both Goshen tennis teams cruised to victory on the road at Olivet Nazarene on Friday afternoon. The women won 7-0 and the men came out on top 6-1. The two teams have combined to win their matches 20-1 so far this season.
Women - Goshen 7, Olivet Nazarene 0
The Goshen women didn't allow the Tigers to win more than three games in any of the 15 sets between both doubles and singles.
Blanka Bodo and
Sara Nino won 6-3 at #1 doubles, and the pairs of Vishmi Serainghe and
Marin Kawano and then
Maria Clara Fonte and
Arianngel Mosquera won 6-0 at #2 and #3 doubles, respectively.
After winning 14 games at #2 singles last season, the most in program history,
Uliana Dotsenko started her sophomore season with a 6-3, 6-2 win at #1 singles. That was the closest match in singles, as the remaining Leafs didn't allow more than three games to be won by their opponents. Bodo had a particularly strong showing at #2 singles, winning 6-0, 6-0. Serasinghe won 6-0, 6-1 at #3 singles,
Sara Nino won 6-1, 6-1 at #4,
Marin Kawano won by the same score at #5 and
Maria Clara Fonte was the victor at #6 singles, 6-1, 6-2. The GC women played at ONU back in March of this year, winning 5-2.
Men - Goshen 6, Olivet Nazarene 1
The men had some closer sets in doubles, but they still pulled through and won all three.
Timo Novak and
Denis Stanculov won 6-4 at #1 doubles and
Iago Cicui and
Garrett Stoltzfus won by the same score at #2.
Paulo Lopez and
Joaquin Luque won 6-3 at #3 doubles.
Goshen's only loss came in a tiebreak at #1 singles, but the Maple Leafs won all the other singles matchups in the second set. Novak won at #2 singles when his opponent retired in the second set after Novak had won the first.
Filippo Gallo won 6-0, 6-3 at #3 singles. Stoltzfus dominated 6-1, 6-0 at #4 and Lopez reigned victorious 6-2, 6-1 at #5 singles. Luque rounded out the GC success at #6 singles with a 6-1, 6-1 win. The men beat ONU 5-2 earlier this year, losing the doubles point and #4 singles.
The men are at Hope College on Saturday at 3:00 pm.
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