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POCATELLO, Idaho- The Idaho State women's tennis team opened play at the 2019 Intercollegiate Tennis Associate Mountain Region Championships on Wednesday in Las Vegas at the Fertitta Tennis Complex.
In singles competition,
Melissa Coburn defeated Claudia Reguant of Montana, 6-3, 6-1 and
Megan Poe defeated Eve Daniels of UTEP 6-4, 6-4.
Alexandra Arkhipov lost 6-0, 6-0 to En-Pei Huang of UNLV.
Viktoria Pavlovets lost 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 to Alex Kuo of Air Force.
Angela Walker lost to Alyssa Grijalva of Colorado State, 6-2, 6-4.
Madison Fenske lost 6-3, 6-2 to Emma Jewell of BYU.
In doubles competition, Coburn and Fenske defeated BYU's Jewell and Morgan Hall, 8-3.
Pavlovets and
Adriene Pavek dropped a hard-fought 8-6 match to a team from UNLV. Walker and Arkipov lost a tough 8-7 match to a team from Utah State.
"Overall it was a good day because the competition is extremely tough," Idaho State coach
Gretchen Maloney said. "The girls worked really hard in their matches and we had a couple that didn't go our way but overall I am happy with how they performed."
Thursday continues with the second round of doubles play as well as consolation doubles and the rounds of 32 and 16 of singles competition.
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