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Tatum Burger
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Winner Denver DEN (11-3, 4-0 Summit)
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Oral Roberts ORU (4-12, 2-4 Summit)
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Denver DEN
(11-3, 4-0 Summit)
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Oral Roberts ORU
(4-12, 2-4 Summit)

Match Recap: Women's Tennis | | Niko Blankenship

[48/RV] Denver Sends Win Streak to Eight with Sweep of Oral Roberts

The Pioneers defeated Oral Roberts 7-0 on Saturday for their eighth-straight win and their 11 in the last 12

TULSA  – The University of Denver women's tennis program completed a 7-0 sweep of Oral Roberts on Saturday morning at the Bernis Duke Tennis Center.

Denver's win is its eighth-straight and its 11th win in the last 12 matches.

Doubles:
Denver earned wins at No. 1 and No. 3 doubles to earn the doubles point at the start of the match. Britt Pursell and Camille Verden-Anderson won their match 6-0 on the No. 1 court, and Tatum Burger and Taylor Melville finished their match next on court three, winning it 6-3.

Singles:
The Pioneers took all six singles matches en-route to the 7-0 victory. Anna Riedmiller won 6-7 (5), 6-3, 10-2 on the No. 1 court. The next five courts were all straight-set matches. Melville won her No. 2 court match 6-4, 6-3, Verden-Anderson took court No. 3, 6-1, 6-0, Burger won on the fourth court 6-1, 6-0, Hada Chang took the fifth court 6-0, 6-3, and Toni Nelson closed out court six with a 6-1, 6-2 win.

Riedmiller has won 12-straight singles matches while Melville has added six straight, and Nelson, Chang and Verden-Anderson have all won their last four.

UP NEXT:
Denver will close out the regular season next Saturday at the Denver Tennis Park against South Dakota. First serve is set for 1 p.m. MT.  

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