April 8, 2007

Results

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Northwestern surrendered its first doubles point of Big Ten play, but the 11th-ranked Wildcats won 5-of-6 singles matches to top the 34th-ranked Indiana Hoosiers Sunday, 5-2. Sophomore Georgia Rose (Mettawa, Ill./North Shore Country Day), who had a 10-match winning streak broken on Friday, did not drop a game at No. 1 singles.

Northwestern improves to 13-4, 6-0 in the Big Ten while Indiana falls to 15-5, 5-1 in conference.

Indiana took a 1-0 lead with doubles wins at No. 1 and No. 3. No. 13 Rose and Alexis Prousis (Lake Forest, Ill./Lake Forest), who topped the top-ranked team in the nation Friday, fell 8-4 to Indiana's Alba Berdala and Laura McGaffigan.

At No. 3, Indiana's Brianna Williams and Erin Clark topped Alexis Conill (Fort Lauderdale, Fla./Cardinal Gibbons) and Samantha Murray (Altrincham, England/Altrincham Grammar), 8-4.

NU's lone win came at No. 2 where Lauren Lui (Houston, Texas/Kinkaid) and Keri Robison (Decatur, Ill./Keystone National) improved to a perfect 8-0 as a team with a win over the Hoosiers' Sigrid Fischer and Cecile Perton. 8-7.

Northwestern took 5-of-6 singles matches to win the dual 5-2. At No. 1, the 11th-ranked Rose did not surrender a game en route to a 6-0, 6-0 win over Indiana's  Berdala. Murray, ranked 29th, needed a third-set superbreaker to top McGaffigan, 7-5, 4-6, 1-0 (11-9).

At No. 3, Prousis fell to Fischer, 6-1, 6-0. Lui won in straight sets at No. 4 over Williams, 6-2, 6-3.

The Wildcats rolled at the bottom of the lineup where Robison defeated Perton at No. 5, 6-1, 6-1, and Nazlie Ghazal (Temecula, Calif./Chaparral) downed Lindsey Stuckey at No. 6, 6-1, 6-2.

Northwestern will play three home matches in three days next weekend, starting with second-ranked Notre Dame at 3 p.m. Friday afternoon.

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