CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The 17th-ranked California women's tennis team shook off a rain-induced postponement to defeat No. 69 Miami 4-2 on Monday, run its winning streak to 10 straight matches and remain tied for first place in the ACC. Senior Lan Mi clinched the victory.
 
The Bears' record is 11-4 overall including 8-0 in the conference. Miami is 8-9 (3-5).
 
Originally scheduled for Sunday at the Neil Schiff Tennis Center, rain stopped the action a few minutes into doubles and eventually forced the rescheduling of the match to Monday.
 
When doubles resumed, Cal's 12th-ranked Jessica Alsola and Mao Mushika shut out Alexa Noel and Raquel Gonzalez 6-0 on court one. The Hurricanes responded with a 6-1 win on court three, where the Bears' Mi and Greta Greco Lucchina fell to Maria Paula Vargas and Daria Volosova, leaving court two to decide the doubles point. That match went to a tiebreaker, with Berta Passola Folch and Naomi Xu ultimately prevailing 7-6(0) over Jaquelyn Ogunwale and Aely Arai to hand the Bears the doubles point.
 
Alsola, ranked 115th, continued her strong play of late when she bested 109th-ranked Gonzalez 7-5, 6-1 on court two to give Cal a 2-0 lead and capture her eighth win in her last nine matches. Greco Lucchina, a freshman, improved to 11-4 in her short college career when she topped Maria Paula Vargas 6-2, 6-3 on court five to make the score 3-0.
 
The score became 3-1 when Xu fell to Miami's Daria Volosova 6-4, 6-3 on court six.
 
Mi, ranked 90th, ended the day when she beat Ogunwale 7-5, 7-5 on court three. The senior is on her own 10-match winning streak in singles and improved her record to 21-6 under sunny skies in Florida.
 
"We had to wait around a while yesterday to see if we could squeeze the match in, but the weather had other plans," Cal head coach Amanda Augustus said. "The team did a good job of rolling with it, staying over an extra day and taking care of business today, when the weather was much better. Kudos to them for being resilient and ready to go.
 
"In doubles, our court-one team did a great job and court two got it done. It was important they finished the tiebreaker the way they did. They really swung the momentum in our favor. Miami fought really hard in singles on every single court. But we lifted our level when we needed to, and Lan did a great job of closing out the match."
 
The top three teams in the ACC will be featured when Cal hosts No. 9 Duke and No. 4 North Carolina in its last two home matches of the regular season at the Hellman Tennis Complex. Cal and Duke – which play Friday at 1:30 p.m. PT – are tied for first place in the ACC with 8-0 conference records. The Bears host the third-place Tar Heels (7-1) on Saturday at noon PT.
 
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