Lobos Wrap Up Fall with Four More Wins

EL PASO, Texas — New Mexico’s Fall season came to a close with four more victories on Sunday, running UNM’s final record at the UTEP Invitational to 18-9.

UNM took a pair of doubles matches on the day to run its record in doubles in the tourament to 7-1.  Katherine Jhang and Leonie Hoppe won again, defeating Tarleton State’s Martha Makantasi and Emma Persson 6-4 while Hsuan Huang and Maud Vandeputte won 6-4 over Elsa Boisson and Ximena Morales.  The lone loss was by Sarah O’Connor and Maria Sodre, who lost 7-6 (8-6) to Celia Vaudiau and Elif Albayrak.

In singles, UNM got wins from Huang and Sofia Taborga.  Huang took a 7-5, 6-0 win over Persson and Taborga won 7-5, 3-6, 1-0 (10-8) over Laure Razet.  The other five matches went the way of Tarleton State.  Makantasi won 6-1, 6-4 over Jhang, Boisson won 6-4, 6-4 over O’Connor.  Albayrak won 6-3, 6-1 over Vandeputte, Vaudiau won 6-1, 6-1 over Hoppe and Morales won over Sodre 6-3, 6-4.

The Lobos will have some time to rest up before the SPring dual season commences the opening weekend in February.