{"id":62694,"date":"2021-05-05T08:24:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T15:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=62694"},"modified":"2021-05-05T08:24:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T15:24:58","slug":"tennis-big-sky-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/tennis-big-sky-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Game, set, match! NAU men\u2019s and women\u2019s tennis teams win Big Sky titles, secure seats at NCAA tournaments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two Big Sky titles came back to Flagstaff from the Big Sky Tennis Championship set in Phoenix last weekend with both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s tennis teams winning their second straight title.<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s team beat Idaho State 4-0, winning doubles points and singles point to secure the victory.\"Men's<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe doubles point was the key,\u201d men\u2019s coach Maciej Bogusz<\/strong> said. \u201cWe were down five or six matches points at No. 3, and they hung in tight. Chris Steele<\/strong> and Maciej Ziomber<\/strong> played tough and showed a lot of heart, and that was the momentum. Idaho State beat us in doubles the last time, so we talked about wanting to take advantage of doubles and carry that momentum into singles today.\u201d<\/p>\n

It will be their second NCAA tournament appearance.<\/p>\n

Just after the men\u2019s matches, the women\u2019s team secured their win after senior Madi Moore<\/strong> won four of five singles matches, earning the team their second Big Sky title. The team had an advantage playing at sea level and knew they had to go above and beyond to get the win.<\/p>\n

\"Tennis<\/a>\u201cWe have an inside joke now, she is on a clinch streak,\u201d said NAU women\u2019s coach Ewa Bogusz<\/strong>, as Moore wrapped up a win on Senior Day against Grand Canyon University as well as Saturday\u2019s semifinals victory against Portland State. \u201cI say it again for the third time, but what a way for her to finish her conference career now. She has been so resistant to lose, and I love to see it. That\u2019s the Madi I am going to remember.\u201d<\/p>\n

This will be the third postseason appearance for the women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s team will face-off against the Texas Longhorns on Saturday, May 8 for the first round. The women\u2019s team will take on the Pepperdine Waves on Friday, May 7.<\/p>\n

Live video and stats will be available for the women\u2019s game on Pepperdine’s\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0and the complete NCAA Tournament bracket can be found\u00a0online<\/a>. For more coverage of the NAU women’s tennis team, follow the team on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Northern<\/a>McKenzie McLoughlin | NAU Communications
\n(928) 523-4789 |\u00a0McKenzie.McLoughlin@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two Big Sky titles came back to Flagstaff from the Big Sky Tennis Championship set in Phoenix last weekend with both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s tennis teams winning their second straight title. The men\u2019s team beat Idaho State 4-0, winning doubles points and singles point to secure the victory. \u201cThe doubles point was the key,\u201d…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":62695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}