Sports Briefs
Women’s Tennis defeats Virginia Tech VCU’s Women’s Tennis (No. 8) defeated Virginia Tech (No. 61) 6-1 last Sunday. VCU’s top double team of Silvia Urickova and Barbora Zahnova had an 8-1 win against Carolyn Kramer and Eliss Kinard. The win put the 22nd ranked pair in the nation at a 13-1 record for the season.
Women’s Tennis defeats Virginia Tech
VCU’s Women’s Tennis (No. 8) defeated Virginia Tech (No. 61) 6-1 last Sunday. VCU’s top double team of Silvia Urickova and Barbora Zahnova had an 8-1 win against Carolyn Kramer and Eliss Kinard. The win put the 22nd ranked pair in the nation at a 13-1 record for the season. Also, doubles Ana Franco Lopez and Cristina Gago earned an 8-6 win against Zdenka Videnova and Felice Lam.
In the singles competition, VCU won five of the six matches. Zahnova defeated Stubbs, improving her singles record to 24-1 for the season with a 6-4,7-5 victory. Marina Escobar Martinez also had a win for VCU, pulling her record up to 13-1 with a 6-3, 6-2 win against Kramer. Urickova, Franco Lopez and Gago also had straight-set victories for VCU. The Ram’s home record is 11-0 with this latest win.
Women’s Tennis faces University of Richmond at U of R next Sunday at 1 p.m.
Baseball sweeps ODU series
In the final game of a three-game series against Old Dominion University, the VCU Baseball team won 6-1 to sweep the Monarchs.
Senior Michael Leishman gave up only two hits in six innings in the VCU victory.
The victory marks VCU’s fifth straight victory as the team moves to 7-1 in the CAA. The Monarchs dropped to 1-4 in the CAA.
Junior third baseman Anthony Granato had two hits in four at-bats, with a set of scored runs. Senior right fielder Justin Mattison and sophomore catcher Jeff Parrish also collected two hits in four at-bats and one RBI.
Leishman kept the Monarchs scoreless for the first five innings of the game, earning his fourth consecutive win. Junior Brian Marshall and freshman Jon Link closed out the game for Leishman allowing only one hit in the final innings. Pitching for VCU allowed only six runs in the series against ODU and have earned a collective 1.46 ERA in CAA play so far this season.
The game was scoreless up until the fourth inning when the Rams broke away with a three-run inning. The Rams earned another run in the fifth, to put the score at 4-0. ODU scored their only run in the top of the sixth. In the seventh the Rams added two runs to their lead to reach the final 6-1 score.