SPOKANE, Wash. – Portland girls’s tennis misplaced a 4-3 heartbreaker in West Coast Convention motion to the Gonzaga Bulldogs Saturday afternoon at Stevens Heart. The Pilots fall to 7-7 on the season, whereas the Bulldogs enhance to 7-8 general.
Portland grabbed the doubles level in convincing style after Alaia Rubio Perez and Rimona Rouf cruised 6-1 at No. 3 and Aleksandra Dimitrijevic and Meagan Pearson clinched with a 6-3 win at No. 2.
Singles appeared to be going the Pilots’ means early as Rouf defeated Caroline Wernli 6-1, 6-4 at No. 5 to double the lead. Gonzaga pulled one again at No. 1 singles, however Rubio Perez made it 3-1 with a 7-6, 6-1 defeat of Ella Nielsen at No. 3 singles.
Brooke Bittner made it a 3-2 deficit for Gonzaga with a win at No. 6 and the ultimate two singles matches had been every pushed to 3rd set tiebreakers.
Tiegan Aitken outlasted Dimitrijevic 7-1 at No. 4 after which Kianna Oda clinched with a 7-3 tiebreak win towards Sally Pethybridge at No. 2.
Portland will proceed WCC motion at Santa Clara on Thursday at 11 a.m., at Saint Mary’s Friday at midday and at San Francisco on Saturday at 1 p.m.
Gonzaga 4, Portland 3
Spokane, Wash. (Stevens Heart)
March 23, 2024
Singles
1. Emily Robertson (GON) def. Iva Zelic (UP) 6-3, 6-3
2. Kianna Oda (GON) def. Sally Pethybridge (UP) 7-6 (4), 3-6, 7-6 (3)
3. Rubio Perez (UP) def. Ella Nielsen (GON) 7-6 (4), 6-1
4. Tiegan Aitken (GON) def. Aleksandra Dimitrijevic (UP) 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (1)
5. Rouf (UP) def. Caroline Wernli (GON) 6-1, 6-4
6. Brooke Bittner (GON) def. Pearson (UP) 7-6 (2), 6-3
Doubles competitors
1. AItken/Oda (GON) vs. Zelic/Pethybridge (UP) 4-5, unfinished
2. Dimitrijevic/Pearson (UP) def. Robertson/Nielsen (GON) 6-3
3. Rubio Perez/Rouf (UP) def. Bittner/Lia Espinal (GON) 6-1
Match Notes:
Portland 7-7, 0-1 WCC
Gonzaga 7-8, 1-0 WCC
Order of end: Doubles (3,2); Singles (5,1,3,6,4,2)
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