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Lobos Pull Off Shocking Comeback to Stay Unbeaten
LUBBOCK, Texas There aren’t any win probability calculators for college tennis, but rest assured that if there were, when UNM was down 3-2 to Abilene Christian and down 5-2 and 4-1 in the last two matches, it would have said maybe 1.0%. However, you can’t run the clock out, and UNM took whatever slim percentage it had, and turned it on its head for a miraculous 4-3 win over Abilene Christian in a match that took over four hours.
The heroes that pulled UNM back from the precipice were Myu Kageyama and Yue Lin “Polly” Chen. Down by a 3-2 score, theirs were the only two matches left, both in the third set under different circumstances. Kageyama won her first set 7-5 before dropping the second 6-3 while Chen lost her first 6-4 and then went to a tiebreaker, winning that 7-2. That looked to be it though as Chen, playing Maryjoe Crisologo at No. 2, fell behind 5-2 in the third while Kageyama, playing at No. 5 against Ile