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No. 20 Cal Plays Miami, N.C. State In Florida

by calbears.com
Feb 7, 2023
Jessica Alsola and the Bears play twice in Miami this weekend.

BERKELEY – The 20th-ranked California women's tennis team travels to Florida to play No. 16 Miami and No. 10 North Carolina State – in a neutral-site match at Miami – this weekend. The Golden Bears (2-1) face the host Hurricanes (3-1) on Saturday at 12 p.m. ET and take on the Wolfpack (4-1) on Sunday at 11/10 a.m. ET at Miami's Neil Schiff Tennis Center.
 
Click here for the live stream for Saturday's match and click here for the live scores link to both matches. Fans can also follow updates of the Bears' matches on Twitter at @CalWomensTennis.
 
Matches Vs. UCLA & Pepperdine Rained Out
Both of Cal's scheduled matches last weekend were rained out, with the Saturday contest with UCLA canceled and Sunday's match vs. No. 8 Pepperdine postponed to a date to be announced. The Bears and Waves played about five minutes of their match before inclement weather ended the day.
 
Poll Position
Cal is ranked No. 20 in the most recent ITA Coaches Poll. In the most recent individual ITA polls, Jessica Alsola (currently with a 11-3 record) ranked 16th in singles, Hannah Viller Moeller (11-4) ranked 93rd, the duo of Alsola and Katja Wiersholm (12-5) sat at No. 15 in doubles and the pairing of Alsola and senior Valentina Ivanov (3-1) was 51st. The ITA will release its next set of individual polls on Wednesday.
 
Scouting the Bears

  • Cal has a 7-4 record in the all-time series with Miami; in their last meeting in 2012, the Bears beat the Canes, 4-0
  • Hannah Viller Moeller clinched both of Cal's victories, including the 6-1 win over UC Santa Barbara on Jan. 21 and the 4-1 win over Princeton in the ITA Kickoff Weekend on Jan. 27 in Berkeley
  • Haley Giavara ended fall 2022 in France, where the Cal senior and Team USA won the Master'U BNP Paribas Championship, with Cal head coach Amanda Augustus again on the U.S. staff
  • Sophomores Jessica Alsola and Katja Wiersholm were outstanding in the fall, as the duo won the ITA Northwest Regional Championships and reached the consolation doubles final at the ITA National Fall Championships
  • Alsola, Wiersholm and Viller Moeller reached the singles quarterfinals at ITA regionals
  • Also last fall, Alsola won the consolation singles title at the ITA All-American Championships, beating USD's Solymar Colling in the final, 6-2, 6-3
  • Former two-time NCAA doubles champion Amanda Augustus – the 2021 Pac-12 Coach of the Year and five-time ITA Northwest Region Coach of the Year (including in 2021-22) – is in her 16th year as head coach at her alma mater
  • Associate head coach Zack Warren – the 2022 ITA Northwest Region Assistant Coach of the Year, who has collected four regional awards overall – is in his ninth year on the staff
  • Sean Hill is in his first year as Cal's volunteer assistant coach, after playing as a graduate student for the Cal men's tennis team last season

Scouting the Hurricanes

  • In their last match, the Canes beat Florida Gulf Cost, 7-0, on Feb. 3 in Miami
  • In January in the ITA Kickoff Weekend at Miami, the Canes beat FIU, 4-0, and then lost to No. 24 Iowa State, 4-3
  • Three Canes are ranked in singles: No.  14 Alexa Noel, No. Daevenia Achong and No. 123 Isabelle Pfennig
  • In doubles, the pair of Achong and Noel is ranked 14th
  • Paige Yaroshuk-Tews is in her 26th season as head coach of Miami

Scouting the Wolfpack

  • N.C. State has a 1-0 record in the all-time series with Cal, beating the Bears, 4-0, in last year's NCAA Championship round of 16
  • In its last two matches, the Wolfpack beat No. 15 Oklahoma, 6-1, and No. 22 Tennessee, 6-1
  • At the ITA Kickoff Weekend in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Pack beat Illinois, 4-0, then lost to No. 21 Vanderbilt, 4-3
  • Alana Smith (13th), Amelia Rajecki (23rd), Abigail Rencheli (25th) and Sophie Abrams (97th) are ranked in singles
  • The duos of Rajecki and Nell Miller (8th) and Abrams and Rencheli (60th) are ranked in doubles
  • Simon Earnshaw is in his ninth year as N.C. State's head coach

Next Time
Cal hosts San Diego State on Feb. 24 at 1:30 p.m. at Hellman
 
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