March 7, 2010
Complete Results
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- No. 1 Northwestern came up with a come-from-behind victory at the top doubles position to take a 1-0 lead into singles where it won all six matches in straight sets en route to a 7-0 sweep of No. 30 Indiana Sunday in Bloomington. No. 31 Samantha Murray clinched the dual with her 6-3, 6-2 win over nationally ranked Leslie Hureau at second singles.
The 'Cats lift their record to 12-1 overall and a perfect 3-0 in the Big Ten, while Indiana falls to 10-2 on the season.
Northwestern and Indiana split a pair of 8-3 decisions in the first two matches off the courts in doubles play, with the Wildcats notching a win at No. 3 courtesy of Lauren Lui and Stacey Lee over Maria Guerreiro and Charlotte Martin. Indiana's win came at No. 2 where the 24th-ranked tandem of Evgeniya Vertesheva and Lindsey Stuckey broke what was a three-match winning streak for Linda Abu Mushrefova and Maria Mosolova.
NU's chances of winning the doubles point looked bleak early on as Indiana's Leslie Hureau and Myriam Sopel held a 6-3 lead over Elena Chernyakova and Samantha Murray at No. 1. But Chernyakova and Murray had had enough and did not lose a game the rest of the way, winning five straight games to secure NU's 1-0 lead entering singles.
It was all Northwestern at singles, beginning at No. 3 where Lui jumped to a 3-0 lead in the first set against Myriam Sopel and held on to win it 6-1. Lui then sped through the second set by another 6-1 score as the first 'Cat off the courts.
Sophomore Stacey Lee followed suit by matching Lui's 6-1, 6-1 score, downing Indiana's Maria Guerreiro. Murray then finished off her victory over Hureau to clinch the fourth point and improve to 18-7 in her senior season.
The 13th-ranked Mosolova bested Vertesheva by a 6-3, 6-4 score to claim her ninth dual win of the season while two NU freshmen, Kate Turvy and Brittany Wowchuk, posted victories at fourth and fifth singles, respectively, to secure Northwestern's fourth sweep of the dual season.
The Wildcats, winners of 80 consecutive Big Ten dual matches, look to extend their streak in their next match when they welcome Wisconsin to the Combe Tennis Center at 1 p.m. Saturday.
No. 1 Northwestern 7, No. 30 Indiana 0
Singles
1: #13 Maria Mosolova (NU) def. Evgeniya Vertesheva (IND), 6-3, 6-4
2: #31 Samantha Murray (NU) def. #101 Leslie Hureau (IND), 6-3, 6-2
3: Lauren Lui (NU) def. Myriam Sopel (IND), 6-1, 6-1
4: Kate Turvy (NU) def. Lindsey Stuckey (IND), 6-3, 6-2
5: Brittany Wowchuk (NU) def. Charlotte Martin (IND), 7-6 (4), 7-5
6: Stacey Lee (NU) def. Maria Guerreiro (IND), 6-1, 6-1
Doubles
1: Chernyakova/Murray (NU) def. Hureau/Sopel (IND), 8-6
2: #24 Vertesheva/Stuckey (IND) def. Abu Mushrefova/Mosolova (NU), 8-3
3: Lee/Lui (NU) def. Guerreiro/Martin (IND), 8-3
Order of Finish
Singles: (3, 6, 2*, 1, 4, 5)
Doubles: (2, 3, 1*)