CARDS WTEN FALLS AT MTSU -- SATURDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

 LOUISVILLE WOMEN'S TENNIS GETS RACK(ET)ED UP IN MURFREESBORO.

(A candid photo of me and Sonya, at football, from Jared) 

Paulie with you today on a Saturday, of all days, to cover the  -- ok, we won't call it "the joy and excitement" of Louisville women's athletic today -- but, instead...filling in on the daily write for a sick Case who is in the bed and the rest of the crew unavailable... involved in their normal Saturday, pre-podcast activities. As for me, I awoke at 9 a.m. to get the gleeful news that Case was out for the article and podcast. It normally takes me an hour to see straight on a weekend morning after rising, so this one may take awhile to write and it'll need a few proofreads.  Coffee, don't fail me now.

Since we have no hoops until tomorrow, at Virginia , for Jeff Walz's crew...I'll leave the preview article for that one in Charlottesville  for our Sunday writer Jeff McAdams. Let's take a look, instead, at the demise of Louisville women' tennis yesterday. A trip to Tennessee, to face mid-major MTSU, and a surprising and head-scratching loss to the Blue Raiders.

4-1 was the final score outcome, in favor of MTSU, and right off the bat, that appears to be a weird score for a college tennis match. We are used to seeing some combination of seven points in a final score...so why didn't we in Murfreesboro on Friday? 

The major reason for the shortened match score was because of illness on the Cardinals' squad. The Cards were down two players due to illness, and tennis isn't one of those collegiate sports where you have a deep bench of players...it's pretty much send out your six singles players, let them play and pick four for two doubles match...usually your best four players. So, a day of six total matches developed...four singles and two doubles match....for five points available. Five, you say? Should it not be six. Paulie? And, the answer is no...they count the two doubles matches as one point.  Confusing, right? 

In any event, the Cards dropped both of their doubles matches...Alice Otis and Elisabeth Iila falling 6-2 and Allie Gretkowski and Alena Noguero going down 6-2. 

The Cards finally got a win on the board when, their only win as it turned out, Allie Gretkowski took her matches 6-3 6-3. They automatically took a loss because of a absent #6 seed. Then, Otis and Noguero played their singles matches and were both defeated. And that was a wrap...the Blue Raiders gathering four points and UofL just one.  

The loss drops the Cards to 1-1 on the young season. They are scheduled to face UT- Chattanooga today on the Blue Raider courts. Just how many will grab the racquets for the Cards will be a match-time decision.  

(Humble Pie, without Frampton...yes, they could rock a bit) 

Conspiratory theorists will gather, i am sure, and discuss the odd phenonium of our writer Case out sick and two Louisville women's tennis players also out with maladies. I have been in contact with Dr. Pepper and basketball great Dr. J. to request a full diagnosis. I've even been texting Case the blues-rock band Humble Pie classic seventies rocker "I don't need no doctor" to help heal him.  I haven't heard back from anyone...which typically is about normal for me. 

So how's your Saturday been? 

I Don't Need No Doctor -- Humble Pie

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