Redhawks Earn Doubles Victory but Fall to Austin Peay in Semifinals Saturday

Saturday, April 27

Nashville, Tenn.

10 am.

Southeast Missouri State University

#1 Austin Peay

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4/27/2019 3:00:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Southeast Missouri women's tennis (12-10) captured a doubles victory at the second position but fell to top seed Austin Peay (21-0), 4-0, Saturday in the Semifinals at the 2019 Ohio Valley Conference women's Tennis Championship at the Centennial Sportsplex.

Kseniya Zonova and Sneha Sinha halted 2019 OVC First-Team honorees Claudia Yanes Garcia's and Lidia Yanes Garcia's doubles win streak at 11 matches with a 6-4 win Saturday at the second doubles position.

Fabienne Schmidt and Danielle Morris then beat Romana Tarajova and Manuela Barriga, 6-4, at no. 3 doubles followed by Tatiana Lopez and Honoka Nakanishi fighting past Isabella Krupa and Teona Velkoska, 7-5, at the top spot to claim the doubles point for the Governors.

Austin Peay then registered wins at the second, sixth and third singles positions to advance to their second-straight OVC Championship Final match.

Lidia Yanes Garcia overcame Zonova, 6-1, 6-1, and Danielle Morris defeated Barriga, 6-2, 6-0, to extend the Austin Peay lead to 3-0 in the dual.

Lopez then overcame Krupa, 6-2, 6-4, at no. 3 singles to conclude the meet.

Romana Tarajova, the 2019 OVC women's tennis Freshman of the Year and First-Team All-OVC honoree, had evened her top singles match with Claudia Yanes Garcia at a set a piece (4-6, 6-2, 0-1) before the Governors clinched the dual.

Southeast finishes the 2019 campaign with a 12-10 overall record after advancing to the Semifinals at the OVC Championship with its first win at the Championship in 16 years.

Austin Peay will meet UT Martin for the OVC Championship, 10 a.m. Saturday, at the Centennial Sportsplex. The No. 6 seeded Skyhawks defeated Jacksonville State in the Semifinals Saturday.