Joanna
Mather
(Duluth, Ga.) enjoyed a near-perfect Senior Day as she led the No. 2-ranked
University of Florida women’s tennis team to a 7-0 victory against LSU on
Sunday afternoon at Linder Stadium at Ring Tennis Complex, where the Gators
played their final regular-season home match and posted their 105th
consecutive home win.
Florida
(17-1, 10-0 Southeastern Conference) clinched no worse than a share of the SEC
regular-season championship and can claim the title outright with a victory at
South Carolina on Saturday in the team’s regular-season finale.
The
Gator women’s tennis squad, which has won more SEC titles than any other
women’s team in any sport at any school, captured the program’s 26th overall
SEC title in the 33 years the league has sponsored the sport.
“It
was a great, great day,” UF head coach Roland Thornqvist said. “We
played well, a great crowd showed up and the temperature was in the 70s. We won
easily on all three doubles courts which I was very happy to see.”
