Kathleen Kennedy
Dave Preston
Kennedy Was Victorious in Doubles With Lewis

Women's Tennis Niel DeVasto Sports Information Director

Womens' Tennis Marches Into SLIAC Final

The Webster University women's tennis team defeated Greenville College (IL), 7-0, on April 20 at Principia College, to advance to the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship.  The women will face Principia in the championship at 9:00 a.m. on April 21 at Dwight Davis Tennis Center in Forest Park.

With the win, the team improves to 18-2 on the season. After sweeping the three doubles matches, the Gorloks had a 4-0 lead in singles and the match was declared over with Webster having won an insurmountable seven points.

Webster defeated Principia, 7-2, on April 14 at the Webster Groves Tennis Center, but it was this same Principia team that upset the Gorloks in the 2011 SLIAC Tournament.  Results for the Greenville match were:

Doubles
Tungate/Tungate (WU) defeat Harling/Maurer (GC) 8-5
Hays/Hacker (WU) defeat Minshall/Minshall (GC) 8-1
Lewis/Kennedy (WU) defeat Lynch/Evans (GC) 8-1

Singles
P. Tungate (WU) defeats Harling (GC) 6-1, 6-1
A. Tungate (WU) defeats Maurer (GC) 6-1, 6-1
Lewis (WU) defeats Kr. Minshall (GC) 6-0, 6-6 (2)
Hays (WU) defeats Minshall (GC) 6-3, 6-2
Hacker (WU)/ Ki. Minshall (GC) unfinished
Wilder (WU)/Evans (GC) unfinished
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