April 6, 2007
Results
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -- Northwestern's 13th-ranked doubles team of Alexis Prousis (Lake Forest, Ill./Lake Forest) and Georgia Rose (Mettawa, Ill./North Shore Country Day) upset William and Mary's top-ranked Megan Moulton-Levy and Katarina Zoricic as the Wildcats downed the Tribe Friday, 4-3. Sophomore Nazlie Ghazal (Temecula, Calif./Chaparral) captured the clincher at No. 6.
With the win, Northwestern improves to 12-4 while the loss drops William & Mary to 14-2.
Prousis and Rose found themselves down 6-3 to the nation's top-ranked doubles team, but rallied back to win 8-6 and break Moulton-Levy and Zoricic's 24-match winning streak. The pair improves to 12-2 in dual play.
The Wildcats swept all three doubles matches as Lauren Lui (Houston, Texas/Kinkaid) and Keri Robison (Decatur, Ill./Keystone National) won their seventh-straight match with a win at No. 2, and Samantha Murray (Altrincham, England/Altrincham Grammar) and Alexis Conill (Fort Lauderdale, Fla./Cardinal Gibbons) won at No. 3. Murray and Conill were also down 6-3, but rallied back to win 8-7 in a tiebreaker.
NU increased its lead to 2-0 when Robison downed Magdalena Bresson at No. 5, 6-4, 6-1. William and Mary's 114th-ranked Ragini Acharya defeated Prousis at No. 3 in straight sets, 6-1, 6-3.
The Tribe tied the dual score at 2-2 when No. 65 Zoricic defeated Murray at No. 2, 6-4, 7-6 (2). NU pulled ahead 3-2 with a win at No. 4 where Lui topped Klaudyna Kasztelaniec, 6-4, 7-6. Eighth-ranked Moulton-Levy handed Rose her first loss in 10 matches when she topped the Wildcat, 6-2, 2-6, 6-4.
As has been the case several times this season, the last match on the courts involved Ghazal. The sophomore captured the clincher for the Wildcats in three sets over Lauren Sabacinski, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3.
Northwestern's match against Ohio State has been rescheduled for 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 18. The 'Cats face Indiana at 10 a.m. Sunday, April 8 as scheduled.