{"id":220463,"date":"2026-03-15T06:10:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T06:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220463\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T06:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T06:10:32","slug":"apu-rallies-past-fresno-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220463\/","title":{"rendered":"APU Rallies Past Fresno Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mesa-Mavs.png\" alt=\"Colorado Mesa\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Match:<\/p>\n<p> Colorado Mesa<\/p>\n<p>3\/18\/2026 | 2:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Mar. 18 (Wed) \/ 2:00 PM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mesa-Mavs.png\" alt=\"Colorado Mesa\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0Colorado Mesa&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/athletics.apu.edu\/sports\/womens-tennis\/opponent-history\/colorado-mesa\/83\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"444\" data-start=\"195\">AZUSA, Calif. \u2014 No. 22 Azusa Pacific showed resilience Thursday afternoon, rallying from an early deficit to defeat Fresno Pacific 5\u20132 at the Munson &amp; Bayougian Tennis Complex. The win pushes the Cougars to 12\u20132 on the season.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"666\" data-start=\"446\">Fresno Pacific grabbed the early momentum by sweeping the doubles point. The Sunbirds secured victories at both No. 1 and No. 2 doubles before the match at No. 3 was left unfinished.<br data-end=\"631\" data-start=\"628\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\nOrder of finish (doubles): 1, 2<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"769\" data-start=\"668\">Trailing 1\u20130 heading into singles, Azusa Pacific responded with a dominant showing across the lineup.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1079\" data-start=\"771\"><a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.apu.edu\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/shannele-lopez\/19388\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19388\" target=\"_blank\">Shannele Lopez<\/a> was the first Cougar off the court, rolling to a 6\u20130, 6\u20132 victory at No. 4 singles to even the match. <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.apu.edu\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/kimberly-tran\/19392\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19392\" target=\"_blank\">Kimberly Tran<\/a> quickly followed with a 6\u20130, 6\u20131 win at No. 6, and <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.apu.edu\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/melis-mert\/19389\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19389\" target=\"_blank\">Melis Mert<\/a> added another convincing performance with a 6\u20131, 6\u20132 victory at No. 5 to give APU the lead.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1334\" data-start=\"1081\">At the top of the lineup, No. 33 <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.apu.edu\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/stina-larsson\/19387\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19387\" target=\"_blank\">Stina Larsson<\/a> delivered a statement win over No. 40 Fabiana Gonzalez, 6\u20133, 6\u20133, helping secure the fourth point for the Cougars. <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.apu.edu\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/karola-suviste\/19391\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19391\" target=\"_blank\">Karola Suviste<\/a> later capped the afternoon with a straight-set victory at No. 3.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1473\" data-start=\"1336\">Fresno Pacific earned its second point at No. 2 singles, but the Cougars controlled the majority of the courts after the doubles deficit.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1522\" data-start=\"1475\">Order of finish (singles): 4, 6, 5, 2, 1, 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Match: Colorado Mesa 3\/18\/2026 | 2:00 PM &#13; Mar. 18 (Wed) \/ 2:00 PM&#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-220463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}