Idaho tennis brought the heat on the road this weekend.
Jonah Baker
The Vandals (7-6, BSC 4-1) dominated Montana State 6-1 in Boise Saturday and stayed in town to beat Boise State 4-1 Sunday to complete a road sweep before finishing out the season with conference play.
On Saturday, Idaho was led by a sweep in doubles. Sophomore Maggie Chen and freshman Marta Magalhães started off the day with a 6-3 win.
Senior Lucia Badillos and freshman Laura Spataro improved to 6-0 on the season with a 6-4 victory, and juniors Marianna Petrei and Maria Tavares took home a 7-5 win to close out the doubles portion of Saturday.
Badillos was also successful in singles, defeating MSU’s Annie Walker 6-4, 6-2 while playing out of the No. 2 spot. Spataro and sophomore Shion Watabe also added wins, finishing 6-1, 6-3 and 6-1, 6-0 respectively. Tavares and Chen also cruised to two set wins to give Idaho the 6-1 victory.
Sunday’s action brought more of the same results.
Boise State began the day with success by taking two of the three doubles matches. Petrei and Tavares fell 0-6 and Badillos and Spataro lost 3-6, but Chen and Magalhães salvaged a victory by a score of 6-2.
Idaho picked up their third straight win by sweeping singles play. Petrei came into the day ranked No. 44 in the country and she dispatched BSU’s Wilhelmina Palmer 6-2, 7-5.
The final two matches of the day went unfinished. Chen won the first set in her match 7-6 and was losing 3-4 before action ended. Watabe split her first two sets with BSU’s Vanessa Timm but her match ended after the first game of the third set.
Idaho will return home to host Eastern Washington 4 p.m. April 4.
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