NETTERS COMPETE AT ITA REGIONAL

Marissa Brown won 6-2 4-6 5-0 over Lamar on Monday.

10/19/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis

Oct. 19, 2006

FORT WORTH, Texas - The UT Arlington women's tennis team will compete at the ITA Regional Tournament, Thursday through Tuesday at the TCU Courts.

Singles play begins Thursday at 8:30 a.m. with doubles play slated for the afternoon.

UT Arlington sophomore Sara Pesic (Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro) will face Louisiana-Lafayette's Kimmie Lyles in the singles opener. Other matches include: Sofya Lifanova (Moscow, Russia) meets Lana Burton of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, and senior Marissa Brown (Arlington, Texas) will meet Sumarie Muller of Texas Southern.

Brown and Lifanova will face 14th-seed Zuzana Chemlarova and Zuzana Zemenova of Baylor Thursday afternoon. Daniela Novakova and Pesic open with Texas-El Paso's Harmonic Chatagner and Nilsa Ramirez. Seniors Monika Peciulionyte and Simri van Rooyen will face 13th-seed Petra Dizdar and Stephanie Davison of Texas.

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