Results

DENVER - The [69] University of Denver women's tennis squad erased a doubles defeat by winning five of six singles matches to improve to 3-1 on the season, defeating Boise State 5-2 Friday night at the Denver Country Club.

"It was our first match back at altitude after playing our first few matches at sea level, so that was a bit of a change," head coach Christian Thompson said. "These courts are really fast. I thought Boise State came out firing in doubles and executed better. I thought going into singles [assistant coach] David [Loewenthal] and I talk about this fierceness factor, and I felt like we came out a stronger team on those first three singles courts to give us some momentum.

DU's number one doubles tandem of [44] Julia O'Loughlin (Highland Beach, Fla.) and Maureen Slattery (Newport, Va.) blanked Boise State to start the match, but the Broncos answered with wins on courts two and three to claim the doubles point.

Friday's match was played on three courts. The Pioneers first three singles players each won in straight-sets to give Denver a 3-1 lead.

Slattery made quick work of her opponent, inking her second-straight victory with a 6-0, 6-1 result. The nation's 62nd ranked singles player, O'Loughlin, claimed a hard-fought 7-5, 7-5 win for her third victory in four on the young season. Freshman and third-singles player Bianca Mok (Boise, Idaho) picked up Denver's next singles win against her hometown team, controlling the first-set tiebreaker 7-2, before finishing off the straight-set victory with a 6-3 second set.

Senior Evy Van Genechten (Antwerp, Belgium) got out to an early 3-0 lead in the fifth singles court en route to clinching Denver's win in its home opener with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Megan LaLone. Junior Morgan Barnhill (Austin, Texas) came back from a set down on the sixth singles court to win 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, giving Denver its fifth and final point of the evening.

"It was really important to me to get off to a fast start tonight, because I thought we really needed this win," Van Genechten said. "We played really well against Penn State, and I thought it was really important for us to come out and play well today. [The fourth point] was pretty much on my mind the entire time, but I could tell it made me kind of nervous, so I tried to not think about it as much, but it was always in the back of my mind."

Denver will have a quick turnaround as it heads to Colorado tomorrow afternoon for a 1 p.m. MT match in Boulder.

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