This weekend the Warhawk Women's Tennis team headed to Madison, WI to compete for their sixth consecutive conference title. Due to the great play by the team during the regular season the Lady 'Hawks had the number 1 seeds in every draw, but 3 doubles where they were given the 2 seed. Because of this all of our ladies would only play doubles on Saturday, and they wouldn't begin singles till Sunday. On Saturday all three of our doubles teams showed their strength dropping a total of 4 games in 4 matches. This included a great 8-1 win for Alexandra Bayliss and Sydney Divelbiss in the 1 doubles bracket against UW-Stevens Point, who almost defeated Bayliss and Syd in the regular season. At the end of Saturday all 3 Warhawk doubles teams were in the doubles final of their draw.
On Sunday the great play continued. First off for the Lady 'Hawks was Freshman Erika Williams at 6 singles who was going up against a player from UW-Eau Claire that gave Erika her first collegiate loss. Erika lost the first game but didn't drop another winning 6-1, 6-0, and avenging her loss from early that season. At 5 singles Lauren Aguilar was pushed in her first match vs. UW-Oshkosh, but eventually came out with the straight set win. Megan Kasten took her semifinal match against UW-Stevens Point without dropping a game. Jackie played great in her semifinal match at 3 singles winning 6-1, 6-0 in the 3 singles draw. Alexandra continued that great play dropping only 1 game in her semifinal match against UW-Oshkosh. Sydney followed suit as well and only dropped one game in her semifinal to UW-Stevens Point. This put all 6 Warhawk singles players in the finals.
At 6 singles Erika continued her great play with a 6-3, 6-2 win over UW-La Crosse. Lauren added a 6-3, 6-4 win over UW-La Crosse as well at 5 singles. Megan had a tough fought match, but took the 4 singles final 6-2, 6-2 over UW-Eau Claire. Jackie Vitale had a tough match at 3 singles. Her and her opponent were neck and neck the whole match, and it certainly was a tight one. Jackie took the first set 7-6(4), and it looked like she was positioned to take over the match. Her opponent got a break though to start the second set and some of the momentum was lost. Jackie ended up breaking back later in the set, and forced the second set to another tiebreaker. Jackie had a match point at 6-5, but couldn't come up with the shot and she ended up losing the next 3 points to lost the set 6-7(6). Again the second set started off with Jackie getting broken, but she wasn't going to go away. She fought back to 3-3, but her opponent kept coming up with the shots she needed at big moments and Jackie couldn't hold the next game. Finally Jackie's opponent from UW-Eau Claire won the deciding set 6-4, and the match was over. At the 2 singles final Alexandra dropped only 1 game against her opponent from UW-Eau Claire. At 1 singles it was a tough match from beginning to end. Sydney had beaten her opponent from UW-Eau Claire 6-1, 6-0 in the regular season, but her opponent was going to go down that easy this time. Eau Claire took the first set 5-7, and things looked good for them to win their second singles final of the tournament, but Sydney buckled down and didn't drop a game (Although every single one of them was tight).
At doubles, 2 and 3 doubles dominated only losing 4 total games between the two matches. 1 doubles had a great match up against UW-Eau Claire and they continued their great play winning 8-4 against a tough team.
Overall, this was a great conference tournament. The ladies only dropped 3 sets the whole weekend, and won 8 of the 9 flights at the tournament. I will be posting pictures very soon from the tournament, but as you can see all of our ladies were wearing pink socks, grips, etc. The Women's tennis team ended up raising $100 for the breast cancer charity GoPink! Thank you to all those who were kind enough to donate.
Next up for the Women is the ITA National Indoor Championships in Greencastle, IN on Mar. 1st 2013.
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