Box Score HOUSTON – The three-game winning streak for the UT Arlington women's tennis team came to end on Saturday, losing to the Rice Owls 4-0 in Houston.
 
Rice took the double point to open the evening before the Owls picked up three necessary singles wins in consecutive sets to win the match.
 
Lucia Natal and Nanaka Takeuchi had their hands full on Saturday, going up against the 49^th-ranked number two doubles team of Priya Niezgoda and Anastasia Smirnova.  Niezgoda and Smirnova took the match 6-2.
 
In singles competition, three matches remained unfinished as Carla Pons, Lucia Natal and Nanaka Takeuchi all fell in consecutive sets.
 
UTA will travel to Miami, Fla. to take on Toledo and James Madison on March 6 and 8 to begin a four-match road stretch.
 
Singles
1. Michaela Haet (RICE) vs. Momoka Horiguchi (UTA) 6-0, 4-3, unfinished
2. Victoria Smirnova (RICE) def. Carla Pons (UTA) 6-1, 6-2
3. Anastasia Smirnova (RICE) def. Lucia Natal (UTA) 6-2, 6-1
4. Anna Bowtell (RICE) def. Nanaka Takeuchi (UTA) 6-2, 6-2
5. Priya Niezgoda (RICE) vs. Carla Cerdan Vives (UTA) 6-1, 3-2, unfinished
6. Linda Huang (RICE) vs. Almudena Boza (UTA) 6-1, 5-3, unfinished
 
Doubles
1. Michaela Haet/Linda Huang (RICE) vs. Momoka Horiguchi/Carla Pons (UTA) 5-5, unfinished
2. #49 Priya Niezgoda/Anastasia Smirnova (RICE) def. Lucia Natal/Nanaka Takeuchi (UTA) 6-2
3. Anna Bowtell/Victoria Smirnova (RICE) def. Almudena Boza/Carla Cerdan Vives (UTA) 6-2