COLORADO SPRINGS - University of Colorado senior Monica Milewski and sophomores Madie Kern and Allison Wahba each won their respective singles flights Sunday afternoon in three sets on the final day of the Air Force Invitational. The three-day event featured 11 schools.
Milewski has now won seven straight singles matches and breaks her sophomore season best of six consecutive victories to begin the fall campaign. It also marks the second straight weekend where she has won the main draw flight. She won the CU Invitational last weekend.
Milewski's three set win over Harvard's Holly Cao, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 marks her 72nd career singles triumph moving into 14th place on the school's all-time singles wins list and her four doubles wins over the weekend give Milewski 65 for her career, moving into sole possession of fourth all-time in doubles triumphs. The 7-0 record improves Milewski's fall record to an impressive 34-9 (.791).
Wahba won the Golf-7 final rallying from a set down to defeat Paloma Navarro of Wyoming, 3-6, 7-5, 6-0. All three of Wahba wins this weekend came in three sets and she has now won sixth straight matches.
Kern also won all of her round-robin singles matches defeating everyone in her flight. Kern won her fifth match of the fall as she defeated Maria Occhipinti of Illinois State, 6-3, 4-6, 1-0(9) on Sunday.
In the main draw doubles final featuring all CU players, Milewski and Michala Hedelund Jensen defeated fellow teammates Ania Anuszkiewicz and Abbie Probert, 8-3.
Hedelund Jensen rebounded from Saturday's semifinal setback to claim third place honors in the Delta-4 bracket defeating Sarah Cassman of Air Force, 6-3, 6-2; and in the Foxtrot-6 consolation final Erin Sanders swept Illinois State's Carmen Peters, 6-3, 6-3.
Probert claimed a runner up finish in the Bravo-2 bracket falling in Sunday's final to Harvard's Hideko Tachibana, 6-0, 6-7 (4), 7-5. The doubles tandem of Kern and Sanders edged Michaela Oldani/Kristin Eggleston of New Mexico, 8-6 in the Doubles III bracket consolation final.
Over the three day tournament, the Buffaloes recorded 18 singles and 12 doubles victories.
Colorado continues the fall season in two weeks traveling to the ITA Mountain Regional, Oct. 14-18 at Las Vegas.
Alpha I Singles, Finals
Monica Milewski (CU) def. Holly Cao (Harvard) 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
Bravo-2 Singles, Finals
Hideko Tachibana (Harvard) def. Abbie Probert (CU) 6-0, 6-7 (4), 7-5
Delta-4 Singles, Consolation (Third Place)
Michala Hedelund Jensen (CU) def. Sarah Cassman (Air Force) 6-3, 6-2
Eco-5 Singles Consolation
Andrea Maughan (UTAH) def. Ania Anuszkiewicz (CU) 6-3, 6-3
Foxtrot-6 Consolation Final
Erin Sanders (CU) def. Carmen Peters (Illinois State) 6-3, 6-3
Golf-7 Bracket, Final
Allison Wahba (CU) def. Paloma Navarro (Wyoming) 3-6, 7-5, 6-0
Hotel-8 Round Robin
Madie Kern (CU) def. Maria Occhipinti (Illinois State) 6-3, 4-6, 1-0 (9)
Doubles I, Finals, Sunday
Hedelund Jensen/Milewski (CU) def. Probert/Anuszkiewicz (CU) 8-3
Doubles III, Consolation Final
Kern/Sanders (CU) def. Michaela Oldani/Kristin Eggleston (New Mexico) 8-6
