Women’s Tennis Loses Tough Battle Against Purdue – Ohio State Buckeyes
4/18/1998 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
April 18, 1998
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State women’s tennis team lost a hard fought Big Ten match to the Purdue Boilermakers at the Stickney Tennis Center on Saturday.
The Boilermakers came into the contest in a three-way tie for first place in the league. Purdue (11-7, 6-1) took two of three doubles matches from the Buckeyes, winning the doubles point for an early 1-0 lead.
The Buckeyes fought back in six intense singles matches, but came up short losing four of six matches. Mandy Yeley (Sr., Wheelersburg, Ohio) defeated Purdue’s Erika Quebec in three sets at the No.3 position and freshman phenom Kristy Dascoli (Bradenton, Fla.) also won her match in three extended sets to up her record to 22-8. Dascoli currently has the best record in Big Ten play at the No. 1 spot (7-1) and has really turned up the heat in the Spring portion of the Buckeyes schedule winning 18 of 22 matches.
Ohio State will be back in action tomorrow as the team plays host to the Fighting Illini at the Stickney Tennis Center at 10 a.m. The meet will conclude the home portion of the Buckeyes schedule.
Purdue 5, Ohio State 2 April 18, 1998 Stickney Tennis Center Columbus, Ohio
Singles
1st Kristy Dascoli, Ohio State def. Mary Beth Maggart, PU 7-6, 7-6, 7-6 2nd Jennifer Embry, PU def. Briana Harris, Ohio State 7-5, 6-1 3rd Mandy Yeley, Ohio State def. Erika Quebec, PU 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 4th Shannon Taheny, PU def. Kadri Kanepi, Ohio State 6-1, 6-1 5th Lisa Walgenback, PU def. Carolina Nahuz, Ohio State 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 6th Hally Cohen, PU def. Meredith Zimpfer, Ohio State 6-1, 6-0
Doubles
1st Dascoli-Harris, Ohio State def. Maggart-Embry, PU 8-5 2nd Quebec-Taheny, PU def. Yeley-Nahuz, Ohio State 8-4 3rd Cohen-Avgerinos, PU def. Kanepi-Zimpfer, Ohio State 8-6
