St. Cloud State Tennis Gets Back in Win Column with 5-2 Victory over Duluth

Saturday, April 6

Duluth, MN

10:30 A.M.

St. Cloud State

Minnesota Duluth

Photo by: Isaac Bentrott

St. Cloud State Tennis Gets Back in Win Column with 5-2 Victory over Duluth

4/6/2024 4:00:00 PM | Women's Tennis

Box Score

Huskies snap four-match losing streak

St. Cloud, Minn.- St. Cloud State Tennis (4-6, 2-3 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference) snapped their four-match losing streak against Minnesota Duluth (1-8, 1-6 NSIC) Saturday afternoon with a 5-2 victory. The Huskies took a 1-0 lead after winning all three doubles matches and followed that up by winning four of the six singles matches.

Doubles
St. Cloud State captured the doubles point with a sweep of all three matches. In the No. 3 spot, senior Maria Molitor (Delano, Minn.) and sophomore Oriana Grott (Warsaw, Poland) gave SCSU their first victory of the day with a 6-2 win over Olivia Honsey and Courtney Eppen. Junior Claudia Muñoz Perez (Tarragona, Spain) and freshman Brooklyn Broadwell (Thief River Falls, Minn.) clinched the doubles point with a 6-3 win in the No. 2 spot. The junior duo of Maria Paz Aoki (Marcos Paz, Argentina) and Johana Brower (Sioux Falls, S.D.) completed the sweep with a 7-5 victory in the No. 1 spot to give SCSU a 1-0 lead. This was the sixth match this season where St. Cloud State captured the doubles point and the third time they have swept all three doubles matches. The Huskies are 4-2 when they win the doubles point and a perfect 3-0 when they sweep doubles.

Singles
Moving into singles play with a 1-0 lead, Grott gave the Huskies their second point with a clean 6-0, 6-0 victory in the No. 4 spot. Brower maintained the winning for SCSU as she cruised to a 6-1, 6-1 win in the No. 3 spot to give the Huskies a 3-0 lead. Duluth would take the next two matches in the No. 1 and No. 2 spots to set the score at 3-2. Despite the newly found momentum for the Bulldogs, Molitor put the match clinching point on the board for the Huskies with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Brynne Folden in the No. 6 spot. Broadwell put the cherry on top with a 6-2, 6-3 win in the No. 5 spot as St. Cloud State came out victorious with a 5-2 win, snapping their four-match losing streak.

Notables

Maria Molitor and Oriana Grott maintained their perfect record as a doubles duo as they moved to 3-0 on the year. Molitor now has a 5-1 record in doubles this season while Grott has a 5-2 record.
Claudia Muñoz Perez and Brooklyn Broadwell captured their first victory as a duo with their win. Muñoz Perez now has a 4-6 doubles record. Broadwell now has a 5-3 record.
Johana Brower and Maria Paz Aoki secured their sixth win as a duo, the most of any duo this season for the Huskies. The duo now has a 6-4 record.
Oriana Grott won her fourth singles match of the season and has a record of 4-4 on the year.
Johana Brower won her sixth singles match of the year and now has a 6-3 record this year.
Maria Molitor won her fourth consecutive singles match and moves her record to 4-1 this season.
Brooklyn Broadwell won her second consecutive singles match and now has a record of 5-3 this year.

Up Next
St. Cloud State will return home next weekend as they face off against Sioux Falls on Friday, April 12 at 4:30 p.m. and then Augustana on Sunday, April 14 at 12:30 p.m. Both matches will take place at the Sta-Fit Tennis Center.

Results- St. Cloud State 5, Minnesota Duluth 2
Doubles

Maria Paz Aoki & Johana Brower (SCSU) def. Shay Callaway & Abby Johnson (UMD): 7-5
Claudia Muñoz Perez & Brooklyn Broadwell (SCSU) def. Lilly Nelson & Brynne Folden (UMD): 6-3
Maria Molitor & Oriana Grott (SCSU) def. Olivia Honsey & Courtney Eppen (UMD): 6-2

Singles