PADUCAH, Ken. - Southeast Missouri Tennis (8-8) fell 4-0 to the North Alabama Lions (6-2) Sunday afternoon at the Rowton Paul Indoor Tennis Center.
The morning started off with North Alabama capturing the doubles point with wins at No. 1 and No. 3.
North Alabama won the first doubles match on the day on court one. Bobrovnika and Eeva Ristola defeated Maja Bajorek and Mia Mayerova 6-2. The Lions then clinched the doubles point with a 6-3 win on court three. Juliette Demunck and Claudia Casas fell to Senem Ocal and Ada Karabacak.
Lera Valeeva and Kristina Kozakova went unfinished 4-5 at the No. 2 pairs against Emma Ansorge and Mathilde Delaney.
In singles action, the Lions would win the first three matches in straight sets clinching the match.
Demunck, on court four fell 6-1 in both sets to Karabacak. At position number two, Yontha Tadoum lost against Ristola 6-2, 6-2. North Alabama would clinch their fourth and final point winning on court six when Mayerova fell to Ocal 6-2, 6-1.
Bajorek and Valeeva were the lone Redhawks to win a set during the match. Bajorek won set one 6-2 and fell 6-2 in the second set before going unfinished at No. 3 against Ansorge. Valeeva was up 4-1 in set 2 and won set 1 6-4 before going unfinished against Bobrovnika. Kozakova went unfinished at No. 5 against Delaney 4-6, 1-4.
On today's match Coach Brooks had this to say, "North Alabama is a tough team. They compete in the A-Sun conference so they've got to be tough to be able to compete in that conference. The Redhawks are a little banged up but they are starting to come off of their injuries. I'm really happy with our doubles play today and during this weekend. Lera did a great job of stepping up to the challege today and Maja really played a tremedous first set."
When talking about the weekend and season as a whole Coach Brooks said, "Good weekned of tennis. We've played 16 matches in seven weeks which is a whole lot of tennis but we've got to play a lot. I'm happy with the progress we've made over the first seven weeks. We've got a match against Villanova next week and then a little break which will be good for our team. After that, we've got to go out and compete in the conference. One day better!" lot of tennis. We needed to play alot we've got to.
The Redhawks are back in action March 8 as they travel to Orlando, Florida to compete against the University of Villanova.