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From LBSU reports<\/span><\/p>\n Long Beach State easily advanced in its first match of the Big West Tennis Tournament, defeating UC Riverside 4-0 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. <\/span>For postseason play, just matches completed before the clinching point count, leading to the abbreviated score, as Long Beach State controlled play throughout.<\/p>\n \n In doubles, the 49ers welcomed back Anais Dallara, who along with partner Rachel Manasse completed an 8-1 victory over Nadia Sakhakorn and Ayana Simmons. Deborah Armstrong and Lisa Sutton then clinched the doubles point with an 8-2 win over Angelique Corpuz and Donna McCullough.<\/p>\n In singles, Manasse defeated McCullough 6-0, 6-2, followed by Dallara who beat Corpuz 6-3, 6-1. Hannah Grady then defeated Erynne Oki 6-2, 6-3 to clinch the match for Long Beach State.<\/p>\n The 49ers return to action on Saturday, April 18 at 3 p.m. when the team faces the winner of this afternoon’s match between Cal State Northridge and Cal Poly. The Big West Championship Match is scheduled for April 19 at 9 a.m, so if you’re not at the Grand Prix go hit the 10 to support the ‘Niners.<\/p>\n DOUBLES <\/b><\/p>\n Grady\/Weeks, LBSU vs. Oki\/Plata, UCR, DNF <\/p>\n Armstrong\/Sutton, LBSU def. Corpuz\/McCullough, UCR, 8-2 <\/p>\n Dallara\/Manasse, LBSU def. Sakhakorn\/Simmons, UCR, 8-1<\/p>\n SINGLES <\/b><\/p>\n Hannah Grady, LBSU def. Erynne Oki, UCR, 6-2, 6-3 <\/p>\n Rachel Manasse, LBSU def. Donna McCullough, 6-0, 6-2 <\/p>\n Deborah Armstrong, LBSU vs. Nadia Sakhakorn, UCR, DNF <\/p>\n Anais Dallara, LBSU def. Angelique Corpuz, UCR, 6-3, 6-1 <\/p>\n Julie Luzar, LBSU, vs. Roxanne Plata, UCR, DNF <\/p>\n Lisa Sutton, LBSU vs. Anna Higane, UCR, DNF<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 49ers advanced easily by sweeping the Highlanders 4-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}