RUSTON – After being away from competition for the last two weeks, the Louisiana Tech Tennis team put together a pair of shutout victories over Southern Arkansas on Sunday at the LA Tech Tennis Complex.
 
LA Tech (5-1) extended its winning streak to four, first defeating SAU (1-2) by a final score of 4-0 followed by a 7-0 victory.  Including unfinished matches, the Lady Techsters dropped only two of the 25 sets played.
 
In both matches, it was the duos of Najah Dawson/Leonie Schuknecht and Olga Bienzobas/Ana Rodrigues clinching the opening point in doubles. 
 
Dawson and Rodrigues were also part of two of the three singles wins in match one, winning 6-0, 6-1 on court three and 6-1, 6-0 on court six, respectively.  The clinching fourth point came from Tiffani Nash who also only surrendered one game, winning 6-0, 6-1 on court four.
 
All six of the singles matches were played out in match two and LA Tech swept all six.  Bienzobas, Dawson, and Ilana Tetruashvili combined to drop only two total games to provide the three points needed to clinch the victory.
 
Schuknecht remained undefeated in dual singles this spring, taking it 6-2, 6-0 on court one.  Rodrigues and Nash rounded out the day with straight-set victories on courts three and five.

QUOTABLES
Head coach Amanda Stone

"After so much time off, this was exactly what we needed. As expected, we had to knock some of the rust off. We probably made more mistakes than we expected to, but we quickly tightened up and I thought played well. We did a lot of talking about doubles and singles with all the rain last week. It was great to see the team put those concepts and plans into action today."
 
NOTABLES

• LA Tech now leads the all-time series over Southern Arkansas, 2-0. These were the first ever meetings between the two programs.
• LA Tech improved to 27-6 in dual singles and 12-4 in dual doubles this spring.
• Leonie Schuknecht and Ilana Tetruashvili remained undefeated in dual singles, improving to 5-0 and 3-0, respectively.
• Ilana Tetruashvili claimed her 45th career dual singles match, tied for the seventh most in program history.

UP NEXT
LA Tech is back at home on Saturday, Feb. 11 to take on Houston.  First serve is set for 11 a.m. CT at the LA Tech Tennis Complex.
 
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