{"id":758,"date":"2011-05-02T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/women-s-tennis-long-beach-state-wins-big-west-championship\/"},"modified":"2011-05-02T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T19:33:00","slug":"women-s-tennis-long-beach-state-wins-big-west-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/women-s-tennis-long-beach-state-wins-big-west-championship","title":{"rendered":"WOMEN&#8217;S TENNIS: Long Beach State Wins Big West Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>5:15pm <span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">|<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\"> Senior Deborah Armstrong came up with a huge performance in her final women&#8217;s tennis Big West Championship, winning a key doubles match before clinching Long Beach State\u2019s entry into the NCAA Tournament with a 4-1 win over No. 59 UC Irvine.<\/span> \t\t  <\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\" id=\"in-story\">\n<div id=\"tncms-region-ads-in-story\" class=\"tncms-region-ads\">  <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Armstrong, Long Beach State\u2019s all-time doubles wins leader, had not played doubles since March 11, but in the absence of Klaudia Malenovska was reinserted into the No. 1 doubles team, winning 9-7 over Hannah Halladay\/Rebecca Kwan with Anais Dallara. The 49ers then took the point with a win at No. 2 doubles as Jaklin Alawi and Rachel Manasse also won by a 9-7 margin over Courtney Byron\/Smith in another tight doubles match.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">In singles, Brooke Schweyer defeated Sarah Cantlay at No. 5 to even the match score at 1-1, but&nbsp; Dallara put the 49ers back on top, winning the first set 6-4 over Byron and then rallying from being down 5-2 in the second set to win 7-6 in a tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Anna Jeczmionka, replacing Malenovska in the singles lineup and playing at No. 6, beat&nbsp; Halladay 7-6 (5), 6-1 to bring the 49ers to within a match of the win. Then Armstrong, now playing at No. 2 singles, defeated Kwan 7-5, 6-2 to clinch the match for the 49ers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">With the victory, Long Beach State earns the conference\u2019s automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. The bracket will be announced by the NCAA on Tuesday at 2 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">Armstrong has been named the university&#8217;s athlete of the week.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Deborah Armstrong came up with a huge performance in her final women&#8217;s tennis Big West Championship, winning a key doubles match before clinching Long Beach State\u2019s entry into the NCAA Tournament with a 4-1 win over No. 59 UC Irvine.<\/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-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","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=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}