Miami University
Kansas State
Miami Falls For Second Straight Day, 6-1
2/5/2011 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Feb. 5, 2011
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Miami captured the doubles point for just the second time in four matches, but dropped all six singles ties in a 6-1 setback to Kansas State Saturday afternoon. The match was played on the campus of the University of Iowa.
The RedHawks (4-2) jumped out to a 1-0 lead by winning two of three doubles matches with a new lineup. The usual tandem of Megan Martzolf and Stephanie Danesis improved to 6-0 this season with an 8-4 win at No. 1. Riekie Honiball and Nimisha Mohan, playing together for the first time this year, posted an 8-5 victory at No. 3 to put Miami up 1-0. Anastasia Dracheva and Cara Wald fell 8-4 at No. 2.
Kansas State rebounded by winning all six singles matches. Included in that surge was a 6-1, 6-3 loss by Martzolf at No. 3. It was the senior's first loss in 29 matches, dating back to May of 2009. Mohan won the first set at No. 4, 6-0, but fell in the next two, 6-4 and 6-3.
Danesis dropped the No. 1 match 6-2, 6-0, while Dracheva was defeated at No. 2, 6-4, 6-2. At 5, Honiball suffered her fourth straight loss, 6-1, 6-2, while Wald came up just short, 6-4, 6-4 in the No. 6 match.
Miami returns to action next Sunday when it participates in rare doubleheader. The RedHawks are at Michigan State in the morning, before facing Detroit that evening.
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