Lady lakers lose opener

Lady

lakers lose opener

The Clayton State

women's tennis team opened their 2000 season today

against Peach Belt rival Georgia College. The Lady Lakers

had only four players to put on the court, but those four

won three of the six matches played.

Georgia

College went into the match with a three point edge, as

Clayton State was forced to default two singles and one

doubles match. The Lady Lakers top doubles team, Tatiana

Semenova and Leah Brownell, dropped their doubles match

8-4 to the Bobcat duo of Lilia Biktyskova and Julia

Roudkovskaya. However, Maria Zurita and Toko Masiane

posted an 8-5 win over GCSU's Beata Adam and Trish

McDonald at number-two doubles.

In singles,

Georgia College's top seed, Megan Hughes, defeated

TatianaSemenova 6-4, 6-2. At the number two singles slot,

Julia Roudkovskaya defeated Leah Brownell 6-3, 6-0.

Clayton State freshman Maria Zurita defeated Beata Adam

6-0, 6-1 at number three singles. Lady Laker Toko Masiane

recorded Clayton State's other singles win with a 6-4,

1-6, 6-4 fourth-seed win over Ina Dreiseitl.

Georgia

College improves to 2-0 on the season and in the league

while Clayton State drops to 0-1 overall and in the

conference. The Lady Lakers travel to Armstrong Atlantic

State University on Saturday for a 3:30 p.m. Peach Belt

match.