Feb. 5, 2016
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SPRINGFIELD - The Missouri State women's tennis team continues its nine-match road stretch with a dual at the Mizzou Tennis Complex at 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, against the Missouri Tigers.
MSU (1-4) takes on Missouri (4-0) following the Tigers' first match of the day at 10 a.m. against Saint Louis. Live results for the Bears' match can be found on the women's tennis schedule page at missouristatebears.com.
Last Match Overview
The Bears dropped the initial doubles point but overpowered Creighton in singles play for a 5-2 victory on Sunday, Jan. 31, at Hanscom Tennis Center. It was MSU's first win of the season after opening the year versus No. 39 Wichita State, Kansas State and Iowa.
MSU's lone win in doubles came at the No. 1 position, but the Bears took over in the second portion of the dual by winning Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 singles.
Ema Turudija, Phoebe Boeschen and Faty Khamissi each won their matches in straight sets to give MSU a 3-2 lead. Anelisse Torrico Moreno swept her opening set at No. 2 singles for the Bears before Creighton's Nelsen won the second, 7-5. However, Torrico Moreno sealed the MSU victory with a 6-3 third set. Miranda Poile put the finishing touches on the Bears' victory at No. 4 singles. The MSU senior came away with the first set 7-6 (5) over the Bluejays' Embree, then ended the dual with a straight-sets win behind a 6-3 second set.
A Big Weekend for Turudija
Senior Ema Turudija led the Bears last weekend by earning the team's lone point in a doubleheader versus Iowa Saturday, then won both matches she appeared in at Creighton Sunday in MSU's first dual victory of the season. The MSU senior topped Iowa's No. 1 singles player Anastasia Reimchen in a tiebreaker in the first set, but dropped the second to force a third-set match tiebreaker. Turudija wound up winning 10-6 and made up the Bears' one point in a 6-1 defeat.
Turudija provided a clean sweep of her matchups Sunday in a Missouri State 5-2 win over Creighton. Turudija and Poile went to a tiebreaker at No. 1 doubles against The Bluejays' Ashley Ishimura and Darby Rosette, where the MSU duo came out with a 7-6 (3) win. The momentum carried over for Turudija to singles at the No. 1 slot, as she was the first to wrap up her match with a straight-sets 6-4, 6-0 victory over Ishimura.
Getting in the Win Column
Three Bears - Phoebe Boeschen, Miranda Poile and Anelisse Torrico Moreno - earned their first singles victories of the spring at Creighton. Boeschen's 7-5, 6-3 win at No. 5 singles was the first of her career in dual play. Poile's first win this year came a day after dropping her first set 7-5, then falling in a tiebreaker in the second to Iowa's Natalie Looney at No. 4 singles. Torrico Moreno, MSU's leader with 11 singles victories last season, picked up her first victory ever at No. 2 singles after primarily playing at the No. 4 slot in 2015.
About Missouri
The Missouri Tigers enter Saturday at 4-0 overall with victories over Bradley (6-1), SIU Edwardsville (4-3), Northern Iowa (7-0) and UMKC (6-1) this season. The Tigers play their first nine duals of the spring at the friendly confines of Mizzou Tennis Complex, which includes the doubleheader tomorrow while hosting the 5-2 Billikens in the morning.
Fifth-year head coach Sasha Schmid's squad has four Tigers currently 4-0 in dual play this spring. The 20th ranked singles player in the ITA Central Region, Kelli Hine, has not dropped a set in the Tigers' first four matches, while Bea Machado Santos is 3-0 for Mizzou at No. 1 singles. Both combine as the No. 56 doubles team in the nation and are currently 11-3 overall this season.
Last year, the Tigers finished 9-18 overall and won its opener in the Southeastern Conference Tournament versus over No. 36 Arkansas. Bears head coach Mallory Weber returns to her alma mater for a second time in two years, with the Tigers defeating Missouri State 7-0 in Columbia on Feb. 7 last season. Weber was a three-time Academic All-Big 12 First Team honoree and had a winning singles and doubles record during her Tigers' athletic career.
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