The Point Loma women’s tennis team lost 5-0 to No. 7 ranked Hawaii Pacific in the first round of the 2015 PacWest Conference Tennis Championships on Thursday, April 16.
\nHPU, which is seeded No. 2 in the championships, improved to 19-5 with the win while No. 7 seeded PLNU fell to 9-13. The Sharks won all three doubles matches and then pick up victories at No. 2 and No. 4 singles to earn the victory.
\nPLNU drops into the consolation section of the PacWest Championships. It will face No. 6 seeded Sonoma State on Friday for the right to play in the fourth place match. No. 7 Hawai’i Pacific 5, No. 25 Point Loma 0
\nSingles competition
\n1. No. 16 Kristyna Hancarova (HPU-WT) vs. Newell, Nikki (PLNU-WT) unfinished
\n2. Nicole Hoynaski (HPU-WT) def. von Koch, Regina (PLNU-WT) 6-2, 6-1
\n3. Vivian Hansen (HPU-WT) vs. Venugopal, Preethika (PLNU-WT) unfinished
\n4. Lorena Gheorghe (HPU-WT) def. Ramage, Hillary (PLNU-WT) 6-1, 6-1
\n5. Lea Kruse-Utermann (HPU-WT) vs. Weissmann, Jen (PLNU-WT) unfinished
\n6. Sofia Tavitian (HPU-WT) vs. Mountain, Kirsty (PLNU-WT) unfinished Doubles competition
\n1. No. 11 Kristyna Hancarova\/Nicole Hoynaski (HPU-WT) def. Newell, Nikki\/Weissmann, Jen (PLNU-WT) 8-4
\n2. Lea Kruse-Utermann\/Lorena Gheorghe (HPU-WT) def. von Koch, Regina\/Venugopal, Preethika (PLNU-WT) 8-1
\n3. Vivian Hansen\/Sofia Tavitian (HPU-WT) def. Ramage, Hillary\/Mountain, Kirsty (PLNU-WT) 8-4 Match notes:
\nPoint Loma 9-13; National ranking No. 25; Regional ranking No. 8
\nHawai’i Pacific 19-5; National ranking No. 7; Regional ranking No. 2
\nOrder of finish: Doubles (2,1,3); Singles (4,2)
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The Point Loma women’s tennis team lost 5-0 to No. 7 ranked Hawaii Pacific in the first round of the 2015 PacWest Conference Tennis Championships on Thursday, April 16. HPU, which is seeded No. 2 in the championships, improved to 19-5 with the win while No. 7 seeded PLNU fell to 9-13. The Sharks won […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":291836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"Point Loma women's tennis loses to Hawaii Pacific","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11561,11553],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-peninsula-beacon","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}