Feb. 24, 2007
Results
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Northwestern took every match en route to a dominating 7-0 win over Penn State Saturday. Senior Alexis Prousis (Lake Forest, Ill./Lake Forest) extended her singles winning streak to four with a straight-set win at No. 3 singles. The 'Cats head to Cambridge, Mass. next weekend for contests against 54th-ranked Harvard and 10th-ranked William & Mary.
Northwestern improves to 8-3, 3-0 in the Big Ten. Penn State drops to 3-5, 0-1 in conference.
The Wildcats captured the doubles point with a sweep of the three matches. The seventh-ranked pair of Georgia Rose (Mettawa, Ill./North Shore Country Day) and Prousis blew past PSU's Lauren Holzberg and Sasha Abraham, 8-2.
At No. 2, freshman Lauren Lui (Houston, Texas/Kinkaid) and Keri Robison (Decatur, Ill./Keystone National), playing their second dual match together at the second spot, downed Sarah Lotto and Jenny Shular, 8-5.
The No. 3 team of junior Alexis Conill (Fort Lauderdale, Fla./Cardinal Gibbons) and freshman Samantha Murray (Altrincham, England/Altrincham Grammar), another team playing their first dual matches together this weekend, topped Lauren McCarthy and Dorothy Dohanics, 8-5.
NU took all six singles matches with only one going to a third set. Rose extended her winning streak to six with a convincing 6-0, 6-0 win over Andreea Niculescu at No. 1.
Murray, ranked 19th in singles, rebounded from Saturday's loss against Michigan with a straight-set victory over Sasha Abraham at No. 2. Murray breezed to the 6-2, 6-2 win.
Prousis downed Holzberg at No. 3 to extend her winning streak to four, 6-4, 6-4.
Lui, who won a critical match at No. 4 Saturday against Michigan, needed a third-set "superbreaker" to top Shular, 4-6, 6-1, 1-0- (7).
Sophomore Nazlie Ghazal (Temecula, Calif./Chaparral), playing at No. 5, eased to a 6-3, 6-3 win over Dohanics. Freshman Suzie Matzenauer (Tacoma, Wash./Bellarmine), making her first start since the win over Wisconsin, downed McCarthy at No. 6, 6-2, 6-2.
The 'Cats return to action at 1 p.m. Saturday against William & Mary in a neutral site contest in Cambridge, Mass.