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Viktoria Seifert
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Winner UIC UIC (12-6, 6-1 HL)
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Milwaukee UWM (5-16, 1-6 HL)
Winner
UIC UIC
(12-6, 6-1 HL)
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Final
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Milwaukee UWM
(5-16, 1-6 HL)

Match Recap: Women's Tennis | | Jenn Zoellick

Flames Extend Win Streak to Five with 6-1 win over Milwaukee

UIC moves to 6-1 in conference play

MILWAUKEE, Wis. – The UIC women's tennis team (12-6, 6-1 HL) made it five straight with a 6-1 dominating win over Milwaukee (5-16, 1-6 HL). The Flames took two out of three doubles matches for the early advantage and took six out of seven singles matches to reel in the win.

DOUBLES HIGHLIGHTS
Georgie Sanders and Lejla Colic outlasted Nicole Clarke and Loren Nelson in the No. 1 match, 7-5, and Melika LeBlanc joined Rachel Le Comber for a 6-3 win at No. 2 against Labina Petrovska and Anna Daniel Fuentes to give the Flames a 1-0 lead. The No. 3 match featuring Miranda Rodriguez Diaz de Leon and Viktoria Seifert went to Milwaukee's Lucy Harper and Agata Jurczak, 6-4.

SINGLES HIGHLIGHTS
Colic won in straight sets at No. 1, 6-4, 6-1 versus Petrovska, and Sanders endured a three-set marathon with Jurczak and landed on top, 7-6 (3), 6-7 (4), 11-9. LeBlanc rallied after dropping the first set to Nelson to finish the match with a win, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, giving UIC the victory. Le Comber's win streak halted with a 6-3, 6-2 loss to Clarke at No. 4, 6-3, 6-2. Seifert brought her win streak into the double digits with a 6-2, 6-2 win at No. 5 against Fuentes, her tenth in-a-row. Zuzu won her fourth straight with a 6-2, 6-0 victory over Harper.

UP NEXT
The Flames will close out the regular season next weekend at home, beginning with Youngtown State on Saturday, April 22.
 
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