Storm Tennis Opens Home Schedule Tuesday

Women's Tennis | 2/28/2017 9:06:00 AM

DURANT, Okla. – No. 47 Southeastern will open the home portion of its 2017 schedule when it hosts the No. 4 JuCo team in the country in Cowley County CC at 1 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon at the Southeastern Tennis Complex.
 
The Savage Storm come into the contest with a 2-0 mark on the season after downing New Mexico Military in the opener 9-0 and following up with an 8-1 win over Texas-Permian Basin, both on neutral courts.
 
The No. 24-ranked doubles duo of Alexsandra Reljic and Darija Catipovic opened play against NMMI with a 9-7 victory, and the Storm followed suit at numbers two and three, with Anna Buiukian and Samantha Coquinos winning at number two 8-0, while Paula Martinez and Luisa Auffarth matched that with an 8-0 win at three.
 
Reljic then took home the one position with a 6-3, 6-2 victory, while Buiukian followed up with the clinching win at number two singles, taking the match 6-4, 6-0 to make the score 5-0.
 
Coquinos followed with a win at three and Catipovic added a victory at four, with Auffarth taking the five position and Martinez rounding out the action by finishing off the sweep at number six.
 
Reljic and Catipovic again started a doubles sweep, this time downing UTPB's top duo 8-5. Buiukian and Coquinos would follow up with an 8-0 victory, while Martinez and Auffarth rounded out the 3-0 doubles sweep with an 8-4 victory.
 
Reljic completed a 4-0 weekend with a 6-1, 6-0 win at one singles for a 4-0 lead.
 
UTPB picked up a point at two singles to make it 4-1, but Coquinos would finish the match off with a clinching win at number three for a 5-1 lead.
 
Catipovic fell in line with a 6-2, 6-2 win at number four, with Martinez adding a 6-2, 6-0 win at five and Auffarth taking number six 6-1, 6-1.