| April 9, 2006
Contact: Carlos Valdez (210) 458-4930 UTSA drops home finale to Southeastern Louisiana, 5-2 Box Score SAN ANTONIO - The UTSA women's tennis team dropped its home finale to Southeastern Louisiana, which clinched its first-ever Southland Conference regular season title with a 5-2 victory Sunday afternoon at the UTSA Tennis Center.
Southeastern (17-3, 10-0 SLC) won its seventh straight match and completed a perfect run through the Southland Conference regular season. The Lady Lions won four of six singles matches and swept through doubles play to earn the victory. UTSA fell to 10-8 overall and 6-4 in league play.
The Lady Lions grabbed the doubles point by winning all three matches, including a narrow 8-6 victory for Nina Knavs and Breda Kovac at No. 1 over Tanya Hasking and Karen Scida. The Roadrunners battled for two singles points, getting victories from freshman Sandra Kukla (right) at No. 2, a 6-4, 6-2 decision over Emilija Arnaudovska, and from freshman Monika Drabkova at No. 4 over Jana Simurkova, a come-from-behind, 2-6, 6-1, 11-9 win. SLU won the other four singles matches, clinching the win with a 6-4, 6-2 win at No. 1 by Kovac over Nathalie Wallin.
UTSA returns to action this Friday, April 14, when they travel to Houston for a non-conference match with Rice at 3 p.m.
#67 Southeastern Louisiana 5, UTSA 2
Singles competition:
1. Breda Kovac (SLU) def. Nathalie Wallin (UTSA) 6-4, 6-2
2. Sandra Kukla (UTSA) def. Emilija Arnaudovska (SLU) 6-4, 6-2
3. Iva Velkovska (SLU) def. Karen Scida (UTSA) 6-1, 6-0
4. Monika Drabkova (UTSA) def. Jana Simurkova (SLU) 2-6, 6-1, 11-9
5. Nina Knavs (SLU) def. Ana Paula Soto Anton (UTSA) 6-0, 6-1
6. Bonnie Phillips (SLU) def. Tanya Hasking (UTSA) 6-4, 6-3
Doubles competition:
1. Knavs/Kovac (SLU) def. Hasking/Scida (UTSA) 8-6
2. Arnaudovska/Velkovska (SLU) def. Eva Silvester/Kukla (UTSA) 8-4
3. Phillips/Simurkova (SLU) def. Wallin/Drabkova (UTSA) 8-3
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