Highlanders Win Thriller, 4-3 Over Eastern Michigan - UC Riverside Athletics

Thursday, February 27

Riverside, Calif.

10:00 a.m.

UC Riverside

4

vs

3

Eastern Michigan

Ramey Yu vs Eastern Michigan

Highlanders Win Thriller, 4-3 Over Eastern Michigan

2/27/2025 3:38:00 PM | Women's Tennis

RIVERSIDE, Calif.- The Highlanders welcomed Eastern Michigan to the SRC Tennis Courts today for a morning match. UCR was on a three match skid and looked to bounce back before hitting the road to Arizona next week.

HOW IT HAPPENED

UCR took the doubles point as Ramey Yu and Kei Kato took their match 6-3 and Olivia McIntosh-Adams and Crystal Kim took their match, 6-3.
In singles action Kei Kato and Crystal Kim both won their singles matches, putting UCR one match away from taking the contest.
Three singles matches went the distance. With all eyes on Niki Shahbazi's match and Ramey Yu's match. Both these three set thrillers went to a third set tie break.
Shahbazi came up just short and Yu was able to secure the final point and the win.

COACH JOHANSSON ON THE WIN

"Very exciting win for the ladies today. We were up 3-1 and 5-2 second set for Ramey. Eastern Michigan came back from 3-2 down and we had two matches going into third tiebreaker and needed to win one of them. Ramey clinched it for us with a 7-1 tiebreak score, this was a really big team win for the girls. I'm proud of them."

UP NEXT

The Highlanders head to Arizona next week for matches against Grand Canyon and Ottawa. Both matches are on March 5.

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Next Event

at

Grand Canyon University

L, 0-4

Mar 5 (Wed)

9:00 a.m.

Box Score Recap History

Team Stats

#1 Doubles Match

1

Brichackova, Sabina/ Vichare, Prerna [EMU]

3

Yu, Ramey/ Kato, Kei [UCR]

6

#2 Doubles Match

1

Komar, Marta/ Hazmukova, Viki [EMU]

3

Kim, Crystal/ McIntosh-Adams, Olivia [UCR]

6

#3 Doubles Match

1

Mendez, Regina/ Diaz Zayas, Lara [EMU]

6

Condevillamar, Sam/ Shahbazi, Niki [UCR]

4

#1 Singles Match

123

Shved, Daniella / 0 [EMU]

576

Yu, Ramey / 0 [UCR]

757

#2 Singles Match

12

Hazmukova, Viki / 0 [EMU]

66

McIntosh-Adams, Olivia / 0 [UCR]

02

#3 Singles Match

123

Vichare, Prerna / 0 [EMU]

477

Shahbazi, Niki / 0 [UCR]

656

#4 Singles Match

12

Brichackova, Sabina / 0 [EMU]

24

Kim, Crystal / 0 [UCR]

66

#5 Singles Match

12

Komar, Marta / 0 [EMU]

14

Kato, Kei / 0 [UCR]

66

#6 Singles Match

123

Diaz Zayas, Lara / 0 [EMU]

666

Condevillamar, Sam / 0 [UCR]

701

Kei Kato

/ Women's Tennis

Crystal Kim

/ Women's Tennis

Olivia McIntosh-Adams

/ Women's Tennis

Niki Shahbazi

/ Women's Tennis

Ramey Yu

/ Women's Tennis

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Susannah Su on the baseline

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Camile Li on the baseline

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Susannah Su wins against Biola

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Tuesday, April 07

Kei Kato

/ Women's Tennis

Crystal Kim

/ Women's Tennis

Olivia McIntosh-Adams

/ Women's Tennis

Niki Shahbazi

/ Women's Tennis

Ramey Yu

/ Women's Tennis

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