{"id":244840,"date":"2026-04-11T07:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244840\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T07:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:50:13","slug":"mountaineers-drop-match-to-no-36-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244840\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountaineers Drop Match to No. 36 Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MORGANTOWN, W.Va. \u2013 The West Virginia University tennis team (7-12, 1-11 Big 12) dropped a 4-0 decision to No. 36 Houston (17-5, 7-5 Big 12) on Friday evening at the Mountaineer Tennis Courts.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHouston secured the doubles point with wins on courts two and three. West Virginia picked up a victory on court one to open doubles play.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDoubles Results<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/julie-bousseau\/19217\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19217\" target=\"_blank\">Julie Bousseau<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/audrey-moutama\/19487\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19487\" target=\"_blank\">Audrey Moutama<\/a> (WVU) def. Sophie Schouten\/Chems Doha Zeghlouli (HOU), 6-4<br \/>\nElizaveta Morozova\/Petja Drame (HOU) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/lucia-tognoni\/19486\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19486\" target=\"_blank\">Lucia Tognoni<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/laura-villanueva-morillo\/19219\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19219\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Villanueva Morillo<\/a> (WVU), 6-4<br \/>\nIva Sepa\/Valeriia Krokhotina (HOU) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/lyla-byers\/19218\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19218\" target=\"_blank\">Lyla Byers<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/sosanna-malaak\/19731\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19731\" target=\"_blank\">Sosanna Malaak<\/a> (WVU), 6-0<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars clinched the match with three singles victories, while three additional matches went unfinished.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSingles Results<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/audrey-moutama\/19487\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19487\" target=\"_blank\">Audrey Moutama<\/a> (WVU) vs. Elizaveta Morozova (HOU), 6-4, 3-3 unfinished<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/laura-villanueva-morillo\/19219\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19219\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Villanueva Morillo<\/a> (WVU) vs. Chems Doha Zeghlouli (HOU), 6-3, 3-5 unfinished<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/julie-bousseau\/19217\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19217\" target=\"_blank\">Julie Bousseau<\/a> (WVU) vs. Valeriia Krokhotina (HOU), 6-2, 4-6 unfinished<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nIva Sepa (HOU) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/lyla-byers\/19218\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19218\" target=\"_blank\">Lyla Byers<\/a> (WVU), 6-4, 6-3<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPetja Drame (HOU) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/lucia-tognoni\/19486\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19486\" target=\"_blank\">Lucia Tognoni<\/a> (WVU), 6-3, 6-3<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSophie Schouten (HOU) def. <a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/sosanna-malaak\/19731\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19731\" target=\"_blank\">Sosanna Malaak<\/a> (WVU), 6-2, 6-4<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWest Virginia closes out the regular season on Sunday, April 12, at the Mountaineer Tennis Courts. The match will serve as Senior Day, honoring the program&#8217;s seniors in the final contest of the season.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFor more information on the Mountaineers, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvusports.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WVUsports.com<\/a>\u00a0and follow WVUTennis on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WVUTennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WVUTennis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wvuTennis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORGANTOWN, W.Va. \u2013 The West Virginia University tennis team (7-12, 1-11 Big 12) dropped a 4-0 decision to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-244840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}