The road woes continue for Oregon women’s tennis as the team leaves Las Vegas with another loss under their belts. The Ducks took on the University of Nevada Las Vegas and fell 4-1. The Lady Rebels were 7-3 when playing at home in the Fertitta Tennis Complex, but split their season record 7-7. The Ducks are 7-8 on the season and 1-3 in the Pac-12.

Only singles were played at today’s meet.

The No. 1 and No. 2 matches both went to UNLV.

For the No. 1 match, 58th-ranked Lucia Batta defeated Oregon’s Nicole Long 6-4, 6-3. Batta was also named the Mountain West Conference’s reigning player of the week. In the No. 2 singles game, Jasmine Minor fell to Aleksandra Josifoska 6-3 in both sets.

The only victory for Oregon came in the No. 3 singles match where Sofia Hager dominated Iren Kotseva 6-2, 6-0.

Lana Buttner gave UNLV’s Santa Shumilina some trouble in the No. 4 singles, however. Despite falling 6-0 in the first set, she came back in the second despite falling just short of getting the point. Buttner got the match point 6-0, 7-6.

It was the No. 6 game which clinched  the win for the Lady Rebels. Paola Artiga defeated Kadie Hueffner 6-3, 6-3. The final game between UNLV’s Kamelia Dimitrova and Allie Hueffner was suspended 6-4, 2-3 in favor of Dimitrova.

The next meet for the Ducks will be in Los Angeles, Calif. on Friday where they will face off against the No. 12 USC.

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[Originally published here by the Daily Emerald on March 26, 2014]