The Hope Faculty ladies’s tennis group fell to North Central Faculty (Illinois), 5-0, within the regional quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III Event on Thursday in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The MIAA Event champion Flying Dutch, who entered the match ranked No. 5 in Area VI, completed the season with an general document of 13-7.
North Central strikes on to face regional host No. 13 Carnegie Mellon College within the regional semifinals on Friday, Could 5.
North Central, regionally ranked No. 3, opened Hope’s seventeenth Nationwide Event look, and eleventh in a row, by sweeping doubles play.
First at No. 2 doubles, Kensington Payne and Anastasia Bozovic defeated Hope’s sophomore Miyako Coffey (Cedar Rapids, Iowa / Xavier) and senior Taylor Truman (Hudsonville, Michigan / Hudsonville), 8-1.
At No. 1 doubles the pairing of Abigail Penados and Natalie Bassett topped Hope freshman Amanda Lopykinski (Lemont, Illinois / Lemont Township HS) and sophomore Sullivan Moran (Birmingham, Michigan / Wylie E. Groves), 8-3.
North Central’s Mikayla Edquiban and Nina Endurance defeated Hope’s No. 3 doubles group of junior Annika Weeber (Rockford, Michigan / Grand Rapids Christian) and senior Delanie Riebschleger (Rockford, Michigan / Rockford), 8-6.
Hope tallied two singles set wins, with each Weeber and Truman choosing these up for Hope at No. 3 and No. 6, respectively, earlier than North Central closed out the match with their ultimate two wins of the match at No. 4 and No. 2 singles.
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