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March 3, 2008

NO. 35 ANTEATERS AT NO. 36 LONG BEACH STATE; HOSTS NO. 61 PENNSYLVANIA: The No. 35 UC Irvine women's tennis team (6-5, 2-0) will travel to Long Beach Saturday to face No. 36 Long Beach State in Big West play at 11:00 a.m. at the 49er Tennis Courts. The team will then return home to face No. 61 Pennsylvania Monday at 1:30 p.m. at Anteater Tennis Stadium.

 

ABOUT THE OPPONENTS: The No. 36 49ers are 6-4 on the year overall and 2-0 in Big West play. No. 75 Hannah Grady is the No. 1 singles player for Long Beach State.

 

The No. 61 Quakers are 3-1 to start the week and will face San Diego State before arriving in Irvine. Ekaterina Kosminskaya is the No. 1 singles player for Penn.

 

WEEK IN REVIEW: The Anteaters went 2-1 on the week as they beat San Diego State 5-2 and San Francisco 5-2. The team then lost 4-3 in a close match to Saint Mary's. Freshman Brooke Bartlett (Fountain Valley HS) went 3-0 on the week to lead the Anteaters.

 

ANTEATERS RANKED 35^TH: The Anteaters are ranked 35^th in the country by the ITA rankings and is the highest ranking this season for UCI. UCI had it's highest preseason ranking ever as they started the year off ranked 37^th.

 

The Anteaters finished the 2006-07 season ranked 35th nationally after a first round loss to Texas in the NCAA Tournament to finish with a 21-5 record. UCI was ranked as high as No. 28 in the country during the season as the team won the Big West regular season championship with a perfect 7-0 record in conference play.

 

ANTEATER LEADERS: Brooke Bartlett leads the team with a 6-2 record. Senior Jessica Broadfoot (Honolulu, Hawaii/Punahou School) and junior Ali Borowicz (Santa Rosa/Montgomery HS) are second on the team with 6-4 records in singles this season. The doubles team of Borowicz and junior Heidi Kaloi (Wahiawa, Hawaii/Kamehameha School) is 3-2 on the year at the No. 3 position to lead the team.

 

SENIOR Becky Bernhard IN THE RECORD BOOKS: Senior Becky Bernhard (Roseville/Oakmont HS) was ranked as high as No. 81 in the Fila/ITA Collegiate Tennis Rankings in 2007. Bernhard was named Big West Player of the Week six times last season and a total of nine times in her career, more than any women's tennis player in Big West history and more than any athlete at UCI in Big West sports.

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