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Rachel Le Comber
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Winner UIC UIC (11-6, 5-1 HL)
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Green Bay GB (1-12, 0-7 HL)
Winner
UIC UIC
(11-6, 5-1 HL)
7
Final
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Green Bay GB
(1-12, 0-7 HL)

Match Recap: Women's Tennis | | Jenn Zoellick

Flames Take Fourth Straight with Shutout Win over Green Bay

Flames Take Fourth Straight with Shutout Win over Green Bay

GREEN BAY, Wis. – The UIC women's tennis team (11-6, 5-1 HL) won its fourth-straight match with a 7-0 sweep of Green Bay (1-12, 0-7 HL) Friday evening. The win was UIC's second-straight shutout and fifth conference win of the season.

DOUBLES HIGHLIGHTS
Viktoria Seifert and Bianca Zuzu made their first appearance as a pair and bested Samm Pedersen and Maria Neff at No. 2, 6-1. Rachel Le Comber and Melika LeBlanc were up 4-2 in the No. 1 match, which went unfinished, as Georgie Sanders and Miranda Rodriguez Diaz de Leon won the No. 3 match by forfeit to give UIC the early 1-0 lead.

SINGLES HIGHLIGHTS
Sanders blanked Tallie Piaskowski at No. 2, 6-0, 6-0, and LeBlanc dominated against Neff in the No. 3 spot for a 6-0, 6-1 win. Seifert won her match at No. 5  in similar fashion, 6-0, 6-1, versus Sterre Tijssens to secure the win for the Flames, and earn her ninth-straight singles win. Lejla Colic competed at No. 1 and took down Theresa Tebon, 6-1, 6-1 and Le Comber grabbed her seventh-straight singles win at No. 4, 6-1, 6-1 to remain undefeated against conference opponents. Zuzu's match at No. 6 went to UIC by forfeit.

UP NEXT
The Flames will remain in Wisconsin to take on Milwaukee tomorrow at 1 p.m. CT.
 
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