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The Vandals finally got their overall record above .500 and now have bigger goals as they travel to Las Vegas Saturday to play in three matches that promise to challenge the team’s new winning attitude.
The women’s tennis team will spend two days in Las Vegas where they’ll face Southern Utah, San Jose State and Bethany College.
They start with Southern Utah Saturday evening, which holds an overall winning record of 8-3.
Sunday morning they face off against San Jose State, a Western Athletic Conference team who has a comparable record of 7-6 and has won four of their last five matches.
“It’s an important WAC conference match,” said Idaho coach Jeff Beaman. “They’re similar to us. It’s going to be a tough match.”
The women will finish their weekend Sunday evening against Bethany College, a small school from West Virginia who will be playing their first matches of the spring season.
The team ended the fall season with a record of 0-15.
But the Vandals hope to be ready and continue to improve on the slow start to the spring season.
Well into the second half of the season, the Vandals are at the top of their game, winning six of their last seven matches. The team has scored a total of 38 points and only given up 11 in the last seven matches.
Being forced to practice outside, the tennis teams aren’t getting much time on the courts due to the unpredictable weather Moscow has faced during the past few weeks.
“We don’t have indoor courts so we can’t practice at all, and that makes it real tough to go into a match unprepared,” said junior Laura Leoni. “But I think that we kind of fight through it and that’s something that will give us some sort of edge on people, that we fight through something like that, but it’s also very very hard on all of our players.”
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