{"id":822,"date":"2011-03-13T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/women-s-tennis-long-beach-defeats-sacramento-state-5-2\/"},"modified":"2011-03-13T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T10:38:00","slug":"women-s-tennis-long-beach-defeats-sacramento-state-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/women-s-tennis-long-beach-defeats-sacramento-state-5-2","title":{"rendered":"WOMEN’S TENNIS: Long Beach Defeats Sacramento State 5-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

8:15am |<\/strong> Deborah Armstrong and Klaudia Malenovska both battled through three set matches and each one earned the win as No. 61 Long Beach State defeated No. 29 Sacramento State 5-2 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Long Beach State lost the doubles point, as Sacramento State returned to their normal lineup. Inserting Tatsiana Kapshai back into the lineup, No. 45 Rebecca Delgado\/Kapshai beat Anais Dallara\/Malenovska 8-2. Baca\/Meliuk then grabbed the point for the Hornets, defeating Jaklin Alawi and Rachel Manasse 9-8, while Sarah Cantlay and Julie Luzar took the final match, winning 8-5 over Lohsheidt\/Knoebl. <\/p>\n

In singles, however, Long Beach State won five out of six matches to take the match. Dallara\u2019s strong play continued, as she defeated a ranked opponent in No. 89 Kapshai, winning 6-3, 6-3. The 49ers improved depth also showed, as Manasse at No. 5 and Cantlay at No. 6 both had easy wins, Manasse dropping Sophie Lohsheidt 6-1, 6-3, and Cantlay defeating Katherina Knoebl 6-3, 6-2. Clarisse Baca was the Hornets\u2019 lone winner in singles, beating Alawi at No. 4 6-4, 6-4. <\/p>\n

With the match still in doubt and Long Beach State leading 3-2, both No. 2 and No. 3 singles went to a full third set, as Armstrong dropped her second set but rallied to win at 7-5 on her second match point, winning 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 to clinch the win for Long Beach State. With the win, Armstrong tied Assistant Coach and former player Hannah Grady for the most combined wins in program history at 172. <\/p>\n

Malenovska, in her first match back off of suspension, played at No. 2 singles, and dropped her first set to Delgado and fell behind 5-2 in the second set before rallying to take the second set in a tiebreak 7-6. She then won a second tiebreaker after falling behind again in the third set and, repeating her actions from the second set, fought back and won another tiebreaker. Winning 4-6, 7-6, 7-6, Malenovska\u2019s 3 hour, 40 minute match finished out the five-hour, 10-minute team dual. <\/p>\n

The No. 61 49ers return to the Rhodes Tennis Center for one more match over the weekend today, hosting Columbia at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deborah Armstrong and Klaudia Malenovska both battled through three set matches and each one earned the win as No. 61 Long Beach State defeated No. 29 Sacramento State 5-2. <\/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-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}