Lady 'Hawks win two duals vs. UW-River Falls and UW-Stout

This weekend the UWW Women's Tennis team headed to River Falls, WI and Menomonie, WI to take on two conference opponents, UW-River Falls and UW-Stout. Due to adverse weather conditions the matches were played on indoor surfaces that the Lady 'Hawks hadn't experienced yet this year, but the ladies rose to the challenge.

In the first match for against UW-River Falls the Lady 'Hawks used 8 players to capture a 8-1 victory over the Falcons. The lone loss of the day for the Lady 'hawks came at 3 doubles where Erika Williams and Hillary Franzen played a very long and tight match. Both teams had match points during the match. River Falls had one at 6-7 only to lose the next 3 points. Whitewater had a match point as well at 8-7, but couldn't come up with theirs either. This forced the match to a decisive breaker. River Falls pushed out to an early 1-4 lead in the breaker. Erika and Hillary made a comeback to get the tiebreaker to 3-4, but they couldn't cap off the comeback and lost the breaker 7-4.  Even though the ladies were slightly down after that match they knew that there was still work to do in singles, and all 6 ladies in singles came out ready to play. The 'Hawks cruised at the 1, 2, 3, and 6 singles spots, but 4 and 5 were a little tighter. After sitting out of doubles Lauren Aguilar came in to play 4 singles and was a little rusty to start the match winning the first set 7-5 before finding her stride to win the second 6-0. At 5 singles Erika Williams had a tough time with her opponent, but she showed the experienced she has gained throughout the year and won the match 6-3, 6-4. Here are some pictures from the River Falls match.

After playing against River Falls the Lady 'Hawks piled into the vans to head to Menomonie, WI to take on the Blue Devils at UW-Stout. Because of the weather the match was pushed back an hour. The ladies were looking for something to do, and as fate would have it the Warhawk football team was competing against UW-Stout as well. the ladies decided we should head out to support the football team before the match. The football team was up at half 27-7 and this inspired the ladies to have just as dominating a performance in their match. 

In doubles all 3 Warhawk teams won their match 8-1, this included a great match by Abby Day and Jess Vitale at 3 doubles. The Lady 'Hawks continued their dominance in singles. At the top 3 spots the ladies dropped 1 game. The bottom three spots were tighter but the Lady 'Hawks played well in all three including a great win from Kelsey Fitzgerald at 6 singles, 6-1, 6-1. This match showed off the depth of the Women's team as the ladies used 10 total players in the win.  The two wins conclude the Lady 'Hawks fall dual match season with an unblemished record at 10-0.

Here are some pictures from the UW-Stout match

For complete scores from both matches click here

Next up for the Lady 'Hawks is the WIAC conference tournament. The Lady 'Hawks received  the number 1 seed for all the singles draws so the ladies will only be playing doubles on Saturday. All singles and the conclusion of the doubles draws will take place on Sunday at Nielsen Tennis Stadium in Madison, WI.