Colorado
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No. 43 Baylor Nets 4-3 Win Over CU
April 13, 2003 | Tennis
BOULDER - The Colorado women's tennis team dropped its sixth conference match in 10 outings falling to No. 41 Baylor, 4-3, Sunday afternoon at the Kittredge Tennis Courts on the campus of the University of Colorado.
CU, ranked No. 43 in the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings fell to 11-7 overall, while the Bears improved to 8-1 in the Big 12 and 10-10 overall. Baylor took the early advantage in the morning claiming the doubles point that proved to be the decisive point in the match. The Bears claimed two of three doubles points at No. 2 and No. 3 taking an early 1-0 lead.
In singles, CU claimed three singles victories at the No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 positions. Katherine Anne Lutgert was a straight-set winner at No. 2, Lia Dimingo was a three-set winner at No. 3 and Kendra Strandemo was an easy 6-0, 6-0 winner at No. 4.
Lutgert evened her record at two at the second singles slot; Dimingo won her third match in a row; while Strandemo won her 21st match of the season along with her 12th win in her last 14.
Colorado closes out the Big 12 regular season next Saturday, April 19 at home against Oklahoma beginning at 11 a.m.
No. 41 Baylor 4, No. 43 Colorado 3
1D) Dimingo/Lemperle (CU) def. Bradley/Potapova 8-3; 2D) Mulec/Balzert (BU) def. Sall/Strandemo 8-6; 3D) Mijic/Blahutiakova (BU) def. Vanderdys / Sarah Burrows 9-8 (4).
1S) No. t89 Vida Milec (BU) def. Dominique Lemperle 7-5, 6-3; 2S) Katherine Anne Lutgert (CU) def. Stephanie Balzert 6-4, 6-3; 3S) Lia Dimingo (CU) def. Dara Potapova 6-3, 4-6, 6-2; 4S) Kendra Strandemo (CU) def. Izabela Mijic 6-0, 6-0; 5S) Barbora Blahutiakova (BU) Jessica Vanderdys 7-5, 1-6, 6-3. 6S) Zuzana Krchnakova (BU) def. Morgan Sall 6-0, 6-2.
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