Women’s tennis team opens 2008 season with 9-0 loss at Kalamazoo

The Olivet College women's tennis team opened the 2008 season with a 9-0 loss today against Kalamazoo College indoors at the Markin Center in Kalamazoo.

The closest matches for the Comets came at No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles. In singles play, senior Abbie Utberg (Commerce Twp./Walled Lake Central) won five games in a 6-2, 6-3 loss. In doubles, the duo of Utberg and junior Jaclyn Mummaw (Buchanan) lost by an 8-4 score.

Olivet is back in action March 9-13 during its spring break trip to Hilton Head, S.C. The Comets will play five matches in five days, beginning March 9 against the University of Texas at Dallas. The match gets under way at 8 a.m.