Notre Dame Tops Hoosiers, 6-1

Sunday, March 30

Notre Dame, Indiana

12:00 PM

Indiana University

Notre Dame

3/30/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis

March 30, 2008

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - #25 Indiana's eight-match winning streak came to an end on Sunday when the Hoosiers fell in a non-conference contest at Notre Dame. Sophomore Lindsey Stuckey picked up a singles win for IU in the 6-1 defeat.

The Fighting Irish has put together two nationally-ranked doubles tandems, and each garnered victories on Sunday. Indiana's Alba Berdala and Lindsey Stuckey dropped a tight 8-6 battle with #50 Cosmina Ciobanu and Colleen Rielley while Brianna Williams and Katya Zapadalova took on the nation's top-ranked doubles team in the first singles match. Sigrid Fischer and Myriam Sopel notched a win for the Hoosiers in the No. 3 doubles match, an 8-7 winner over Kali Krisik and Katie Potts.

Stuckey then closed the gap to 2-1 with her 19th singles win of the season, 13th in the duals. The Greensboro, N.C. native began by grabbing the first set 6-4. She then sealed the deal in straight sets with a 6-2 second-set triumph.

Following a 6-4 first-set loss, Sopel bounced back in a big way, winning the second set 6-0. With the team score already determined at that point, the third and final set was determined by a 10-point tiebreaker in which her opposition, Potts, won.

COMPLETE RESULTS
Singles:
No. 1- #38 Kelcy Tefft (ND) def. Alba Berdala (IU), 6-3, 6-0
No. 2- Brook Buck (ND) def. Charlotte Martin (IU), 6-1, 6-1
No. 3- #105 Cosmina Ciobanu (ND) def. Sigrid Fischer, 6-1, 6-1
No. 4- Lindsey Stuckey (IU) def. Colleen Rielley (ND), 6-4, 6-2
No. 5- #114 Kali Krisik (ND) def. Brianna Williams (IU), 6-3, 6-4
No. 6- Katie Potts (ND) def. Myriam Sopel (IU), 6-4, 0-6, 1-0

Doubles:
No. 1- #1 Buck/Tefft (ND) def. Williams/Zapadalova (IU), 8-4
No. 2- #50 Ciobanu/Rielley (ND) def. Berdala/Stuckey (IU), 8-6
No. 3- Fischer/Sopel (IU) def. Krisik/Potts (ND), 8-7

Indiana gets back to Big Ten play next weekend. The Cream and Crimson stay on the road for a pair of matches at Wisconsin and Northwestern on April 5 and 6, next Saturday and Sunday.