Donate Tickets Women's Tennis Wins Sixth Straight  March 12,
2013   LAS VEGAS ( - The UNLV women's tennis team won its sixth
straight match, 4-3 over No. 65 Washington State, on a warm
March Tuesday at the Fertitta Tennis Complex.  In what was the
first meeting of the two programs since 2004, the Lady Rebels
improved to 9-3 on the year and 8-2 all-time vs. the Pac-12
Conference Cougars. WSU fell to 10-5.  UNLV opened the morning
by taking two of three doubles matches for a 1-0 lead. Lucia
Batta and Nives Pavlovic downed Liudila Vasilieva and Lize
Leenknecht, 8-5, at the top spot while Aleksandra Josifoska and
Janine Erasmus got by Andjela Kankaras and Ksenia Googe by the
same score on court two.  In singles, UNLV won two straight-set
matches to build a quick 3-0 lead. Batta, ranked 103rd, downed
Googe 6-0, 6-4 at the second position while Iren Kotseva swept
Leenknecht, 6-3, 6-1, on court six.  The fourth and clinching
point, however, was much tougher to come by for the hosts. All
four of the remaining matches