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Gopher Invitational
Courter Advances To Championship Match
9/17/2011 12:00:00 AM | Tennis
Some matches for the final day of competition were altered to avoid teammates facing one another.
Day two of the Gopher Invitational is in the books and one Minnesota player will play for a championship on Sunday at Baseline Tennis Center.
Freshman Julia Courter has cruised through her first three matches in the second flight and will face Iowa's Ellen Silver at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow for the flight title.
Courter won her first-round match on Friday 6-0, 6-0 and then won twice on Saturday. She beat Kristin Kurer of UW-Milwaukee 6-1, 6-0 in the morning and then dropped Iowa's Katie Zordani 6-1, 6-3 in the afternoon to advance to the final.
Six Gophers are participating in the tournament, which concludes tomorrow and is divided into four flights in singles and two in doubles. Joining the Gophers in the tournament are participants from Bradley, Gustavus, Iowa, Iowa State, LSU, Missouri, UW-Milwaukee and Wisconsin.
Senior Magdalena Wiecha went 1-1 in singles on Saturday. She also teamed with junior Alexa Palen in doubles and lost in the semifinals in the top doubles flight 8-6 to Iowa's Sonja Molnar and Shelby Talcott. The duo won both of their matches on Friday by a score of 8-0.
Like Wiecha, junior Doron Muravnik went 1-1 in the top singles flight. She is slated to face Wiecha in her final singles match of the tournament.
Freshman Aria Lambert was 0-2 in singles in the second flight on Saturday and lost her doubles match in the top flight with Courter as well.
Sophomore Pauline Gilbert fell to Morven McCulloch of Iowa in the second round of the third singles flight. She then received a walkover win against injured Cassandra Escobar of Iowa.
The Gopher Invitational is the first of six fall tournaments that Minnesota will compete in this year and continues tomorrow starting at 9 a.m. at Baseline Tennis Center. The event is free to the public.
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