The Cardinal, with six players ranked in the nation¹s top 50, improve to 23-0 as the Hornets fall to 12-8.

Sacramento State No. 1 singles player, Margarita Karnaukhova kept pace with 17th-ranked Amber Liu, winning the first set 6-3, before falling, 7-5 and 10-8.

Freshman Luba Schifris fell at the No.2 spot, 6-1, 6-1 to seventh-ranked Alice Barnes. At the No.3 spot, Joyce Martinez Gutierrez was defeated by sixth-ranked Therese Logar, 6-2, 6-3.

At No. 4 singles, Sacramento State’s Karina Jarlkaganova lost to 48th-ranked Whitney Deason, 6-1, 6-0. Hornet junior Cecilia Helland battled Lejla Hodzic at the No. 5 spot, before falling 7-5, 6-1. Freshman Anastassia Lyssenko also was defeated, 6-0, 6-0 at the No. 6 spot to 65th-ranked Jessica Nguyen.

Stanford also swept the doubles point.

Sacramento State, which went 6-0 in the Big Sky Conference regular season, will next play in the postseason tournament beginning on Thursday, April 27, hosted by Idaho State. The Hornets have won four straight conference championships.

No. 1 Stanford 7, No. 62 Sacramento State 0

Doubles

1. No. 1 Barnes/Yelsey (STAN) def. Karnaukhova/Lyssenko (SAC), 8-5

2. Hodzic/Nguyen (STAN) def. Schifris/Martinez Gutierrez (SAC, 8-0

3. Deason/Joanna Kao (STAN) def. Helland/Pimenova (SAC), 8-2

Singles

1. No. 17 Amber Liu (STAN) def. Margarita Karnaukhova (SAC), 3-6, 7-5, 1-0 (10-8)

2. No. 7 Alice Barnes (STAN) def. Luba Schifris (SAC), 6-1, 6-1

3. No. 6 Therese Logar (STAN) def. Joyce Martinez Gutierrez (SAC), 6-2, 6-3

4. No. 48 Whitney Deason (STAN) def. Karina Jarlkaganova (SAC), 6-1, 6-0

5. Lejla Hodzic (STAN) def. Cecilia Helland (SAC), 7-5, 6-1

6. No. 65 Jessica Nguyen (STAN) def. Anastassia Lyssenko (SAC), 6-0, 6-0