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No. 10 Women's Tennis Falls To No. 4 Scad-Savannah At Ita Indoor Nationals

No. 10 Indiana Wesleyan women's tennis suffered their first loss of the season against #4-ranked SCAD Savannah on Friday morning, 1-4, in the ITA NAIA National Indoor Championships in Overland Park, Kan. The women opened the match by winning the doubles point. Dveksler/Barger and Connolly/Munoz played dominating matches to put IWU out in front 1-0. The singles matches were very close and not having #1 player France Antezana (out for spring season with ACL tear) was the difference in this top 10 matchup.

MATCH VITALS        

•    Score: No. 4 SCAD-Savannah def. No. 10 IWU, 4-1

•    Records: IWU 14-1 I SCAD 2-1

•    Location: Overland Park, Kan.

•    NAIA Top-25 Rankings: IWU - #10 | SCAD – #4

DOUBLES

•    o. 1: Breann Barger/Melanie Dveksler (IWU) vs. Yu/Piccoliori (SCAD) 6-4

•    No. 2: Emily Connolly/Sofia Loren Munoz (IWU) vs. Konrad/Ragona (SCAD) 6-1

•    No. 3: Botsford/Puig Llompart (SCAD) def. Ellie Snider/Maria Way (IWU) 6-1

SINGLES 

•    No. 1: Piccoliori (SCAD) def. Melanie Dveksler (IWU) 6-2, 6-2

•    No. 2: Yu (SCAD) def. Sofia Loren Munoz (IWU) 6-3, 7-6

•    No. 3: Ragona (SCAD) def. Breann Barger (IWU) 6-4, 6-0

•    No. 4: Konrad (SCAD) vs. Ellie Snider (IWU) 5-7, 7-5, DNF

•    No. 5: Llompart (SCAD) def. Emily Connolly (IWU) 6-1, 4-6, 6-1

•    No. 6: Botsford (SCAD) vs. Maria Way (IWU) 6-4, 3-4, DNF

GLEGHORN PERSPECTIVE     

•    "We played incredible doubles today," said James Gleghorn, Head Tennis Coach. "The ladies were so impressive in getting out in front. We need to work on playing more aggressively in singles to beat a strong team like SCAD. I am looking forward to getting back out there tomorrow and picking up a win!"

LOOKING FORWARD 

•    The Wildcats will face Kansas Wesleyan tomorrow morning for their second match at 9:00 a.m. ET

Original source can be found here.