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No. 1 San Diego State Blanks No. 8 Air Force 6-0
Aztecs advance to face No. 4 UNLV in semifinals.
April 27, 2000
LAS VEGAS -- The 31st-ranked San Diego State women played through high temperatures and fought off Air Force for a 6-0 victory in the first round of the inaugural Mountain West Conference Women's Tennis Championship at the Fertitta Tennis Complex Thursday. The top-seeded Aztecs avoided doubles play by sweeping all six singles matches from the eighth-seeded Falcons. Winning for SDSU were Whitney Wells, Laura Aguero, Katja Karrento, Lindsey Hedberg, Katey Becker and Julie Chidley. The top two matches went to three sets, however, and extended the match to two-and-a-half hours. The No. 2 match was completed even though SDSU had already clinched the team victory. "This was a hard-fought match," SDSU head coach Peter Mattera said. "We played sluggish to begin with, but then were playing well by the end of the day. We got the first-round jitters out our system. "We heard Air Force was a pesky team and they played as good as advertised and that made for an entertaining college tennis match. The heat didn't seem to be a factor with us. I know we are used to it more than Air Force." The Aztecs, who improved to 14-8 overall and 3-1 in the MWC, will play fourth-seed and host UNLV Friday at 2 p.m. in one semifinal. Air Force, which dropped to 13-8, 0-4, will take on Utah, which was a 5-0 loser to the Rebels. "UNLV's match was over very quickly so they had to have played well," Mattera said. "We had a tough match with them at home (SDSU defeated UNLV on April 1, 6-3) and we expect the same Friday."
MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE WOMEN'S TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP (1) SAN DIEGO STATE 6, (8) AIR FORCE 0
SINGLES--
* clinching match
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