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Volume 71, Issue 130,
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Sports Cougars ready for conference tourney by MARK SUAREZ
The UH tennis team reached a 19-4 overall record and ended the regular season on a three-match win streak. The Cougars were 3-1 versus conference opponents this year and will look to pick up where they left off in the C-USA Women's Tennis Championship beginning Thursday. The 11-team tournament will be held at the Garland Tennis Center in Dallas and will kick off with three first-round matches on Thursday followed by four quarterfinal matches Friday. Teams seeded 1-5 are awarded a first-round bye. The four remaining teams will advance to the semi-finals on Saturday to determine who will play in the championship match scheduled for Sunday at 10 a.m. The Cougars were awarded the third seed in the tournament and will not play until Friday, when they face the winner of the East Carolina (6) and Memphis (11) match slated for Thursday at 2 p.m. Houston did not play East Carolina during the regular season and was rained out of its Feb. 25 scheduled home match with Memphis. "We're playing with a lot of confidence and a lot of swagger, UH head coach John Severance said. "I think we have to, and that's what I've been telling the team. You can't walk into the conference (tournament) scared, you have to walk into it like you know you are going to win it." The only conference loss of the season the Cougars suffered came at the hands of top-seeded SMU on April 2, a loss that Severance has not forgotten. "Whoever is the hottest team and whoever is playing
with a lot of confidence is going to be the team that wins it," Severance
said. "We look at SMU who is going to be the No. 1 seed and we know we
missed some opportunities against them a couple of weeks ago. We're ready
to avenge that loss if we get the chance to play them again."
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