Friday, 02/19/2010

 Glendale, AZ—The third-ranked Brigham Young University Hawaii women’s tennis team swept their fifth straight match tonight by defeating Montana State-Billings 9-0 in Glendale, Arizona.  The Seasiders breezed through the doubles matches and took all six singles matches handily to improve to 5-0 for the season.
       Yuan Jia and Elwen Li took the top doubles match 8-1 while Ayako Ikeda and Shawni Porter were winning by the same score at number two doubles.  Jenny Chin and Salina Aranda swept number three doubles 8-0.
       Aranda also scored a shutout at number six singles with a 6-0, 6-0 win.  Li won at number two singles by a 6-1, 60 score and Porter matched that at number four singles.  Chin won 6-0, 6-1 at number five while Ikeda won at number three by a 6-2, 6-1 score.  Jia took the top singles spot 6-3, 6-1.
       The Seasiders won’t play again until February 26th against UH-Hilo in Hilo at 1:00 pm HST.