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YSU Set To Take On 10th-Seeded Wolverines In NCAA Regional

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IAA Fan:
The Youngstown State women's tennis team will take on 10th-seeded Michigan in the NCAA Regionals on Friday in Ann Arbor, Mich., at the Varsity Tennis Center.

The Penguins (16-8) are making their fourth consecutive appearance at the NCAA Regionals and will be facing a Big Ten foe for the second straight year. Michigan (21-5) has appeared in the NCAA Regionals for 16 straight years.

First serve for the contest is set for 1 p.m. following the first match which features Dartmouth against No. 17 Kentucky.

This is the first-ever meeting between the two programs, but the Guins are familiar with the Varsity Tennis Center. The Penguins recently won a pair of matches to claim the Horizon League Championship. YSU also won Horizon League titles at the facility in 2014 and 2016.

YSU has won its last 10 matches entering the contest at Michigan. The Penguins started the season 4-1 before winning four of their next nine matches. Since March 25, YSU has reeled off 10 straight wins, one shy of the school record.

YSU's 16 wins tie for the second-most wins in a season school history. The Penguins won 17 matches in 2014-15 and 16 in 1998-99.

Four Penguins enter the postseason on winning streaks of four-or-more matches. Senior Nehel Sahni has won eight straight matches, Noelly Longi Nsimba and Dominika Lackova have won five straight while Imaan Hassim has won her last four decisions.

This is the fourth NCAA appearance for Lackova and Sahni, third for Sofia Macias and second for Ana Stroe and Nsimba.

The Wolverines have won eight of their last nine matches are and 11-0 at home this season. UM has a top-10 ranked doubles team and a pair of singles players ranked in the top 30 nationally.

In the newest ITA rankings (May 4), junior Alex Najarian and sophomore Kate Fahey stayed at No. 9 for the third straight week. Najarian and Fahey are 26-4 overall, with a 15-3 mark at No. 1 during dual matches. The two were ranked as the nation's No. 1 doubles team earlier this season. On the singles side, Brienne Minor (No. 24) and Fahey (No. 26) are the lone Wolverines ranked.

In October, Nsimba battled Minor to the three-set decision at the ITA Midwest Regionals. Nsimba dropped a 6-1, 4-6, 6-1 decision to Minor in East Lansing, Mich.

The winner of Friday's match will play on Saturday at 1 p.m.

go guins:
Can't help but notice YSU athletic programs are on a real roll.  Softball, both M & W track programs and cross country, football, golf, and the dramatic recruiting for MBB have been nothing short of fabulous.  The WBB program was crushed last season by injuries, but has a very healthy tradition as well. Great job kids, (I do feel a very steady and powerful hand at the head of all this.  No names, but JT might be the initials!)

IAA Fan:

--- Quote from: go guins on May 12, 2017, 11:20:18 AM ---Can't help but notice YSU athletic programs are on a real roll.  Softball, both M & W track programs and cross country, football, golf, and the dramatic recruiting for MBB have been nothing short of fabulous.  The WBB program was crushed last season by injuries, but has a very healthy tradition as well. Great job kids, (I do feel a very steady and powerful hand at the head of all this.  No names, but JT might be the initials!)

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I think you mean "RS". JT is quite out of sports at this point. BTW. don't forget Bowling.

go guins:

--- Quote from: IAA Fan on May 12, 2017, 05:56:21 PM ---
--- Quote from: go guins on May 12, 2017, 11:20:18 AM ---Can't help but notice YSU athletic programs are on a real roll.  Softball, both M & W track programs and cross country, football, golf, and the dramatic recruiting for MBB have been nothing short of fabulous.  The WBB program was crushed last season by injuries, but has a very healthy tradition as well. Great job kids, (I do feel a very steady and powerful hand at the head of all this.  No names, but JT might be the initials!)

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I think you mean "RS". JT is quite out of sports at this point. BTW. don't forget Bowling.

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Oh yes Bowling!  The Title 9 sport of the year!

RS??  Don't make me laugh!  He has been here 20+ years and Executive Director for 16 years.  Go back and look at what happened every year, every sport since he was in charge before JT came back, and what has happened since JT is here.  You can bet your last dollar that NOTHING of importance goes on at YSU, especially if it relate to sports that JT isn't involved in.  You think Strollo finally moved on Wolford or got Pelini here?  You think Strollo finally moved on Slocum and recruited Calhoun? 
Read this quote from Coach Calhoun on accepting the job: "First of all, I want to thank President (Jim) Tressel,"  After the comma, he also mentioned Strollo and the entire YSU community, but he knows which end is up and how is driving the ship!

IAA Fan:
sorry buddy. Actually they had their eye on someone else, who signed with another school and yes it was 100% Strollo as we did not have the salary to offer. Tressel is the one that felt we should renew Slocum 3-years ago. and that was actually minor influence at best. If Strollo would have pushed JT, Slocum would not have renewed. Slocum did not want to replace coach H, but H resigned and Strollo gave cold expectations to Wolf with a 1-year extension. If you listen or read coach P's attorney, you will see that the first person he called was Strollo ... NOT president Tressel. Strollo was not 100% sold on Pelini, as none of us are; but he did his homework and made the call; only time will tell if it was the right decision. All of our successful sports are title-IX related, so why blame Strollo, when it was actually Tressel that ignored title-IX as an AD. Strollo had to move heavy and quickly in order to meet NCAA deadlines imposed almost a decade earlier, which he did. Our success in women's athletics is also 100% because of Strollo. It was Strollo who has reshaped this campus with his awesome work on facilities.  Look at track and tennis, both sports where success in women's programs aided in the success of the men's. Look how we went from what had become essentially a diving-only team to the return of a Swimming and Diving team (I may not agree with the decision, but it is one Strollo made). It is easy to get caught up in what is new and exciting; but only time will tell. You may not agree with a limited number of things that he has said; or 1 maybe 2 decisions he has made, but Strollo is 100% Penguin. His coaching decisions may not have always worked out, but they were more than solid selections & we recovered mostly through his guidance. Strollo has given YSU an athletic program to be proud of, and one that can now move into any conference. Strollo may have respect for JT, with good reason, but he is far from a dog at the end of Tressel's leash.

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