Melissa LaMette Award Player of the Week Week Of 4/6/2022 Sport Women's Tennis School Cal Poly Year Position Hometown Cypress, TX High School Cypress Ranch HS Melissa LaMette led Cal Poly to a pair of home victories in The Big West action over the weekend, as the Mustangs defeated Long Beach State (4-0) for the first time in over 15 years on Friday, and then-75th-ranked Hawai’i (5-2) on Sunday. They improved to 12-4 overall, and a still-undefeated 5-0 in conference activity and 8-0 at home on the year. A winner of seven straight, Cal Poly remains tied atop the standings with UC Santa Barbara (3-0). The Mustangs moved into Wednesday’s latest ITA national rankings for the first time this season at No. 72. The redshirt sophomore and native Texan won both of her matches at No. 3 singles, and also teamed up with Delanie Dunkle to go 2-0 on the No. 2 doubles court. LaMette produced the match clincher against Long Beach State’s Sheena Masuda, 7-5, 7-6(3), and then beat Ana Vilcek of Hawai’i, 6-1, 1-6, 6-0. She and Dunkle downed Nikola Homolkova and Peppi Ramstedt, 6-3, to clinch the doubles point over the Beach, before blanking UH’s Vilcek and Tal Talya Zandberg, 6-0. LaMette has now won her last four singles matches and is 10-5 on the year, tied for the most wins on the team. In doubles, she and Delanie Dunkle are 8-3. LaMette is a first-time Big West Player of the Week, and Cal Poly’s second honoree this season after Peyton Dunkle earned the first award of 2022 back on Jan. 19.