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No. 9 Barton women's tennis wins pair
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No. 9 Barton women win pair

The No. 9 ranked Barton Community College women's tennis team earned a pair of 5-4 victories at the Stueder Contractors' Cougar Classic. The Cougars downed NCAA Division 2 Fort Hays State University and Newman University.

The Cougars won the top two of the three doubles matches against each opponent at the Shannon Schartz Tennis Courts before splitting six singles matches.

Barton (8-2) will play No. 1 ranked Cowley College March 30. The No. 4 ranked Barton men will challenge No. 1 Cowley. Matches begin at 1 p.m.

Barton's nationally ranked individuals each won their singles matchups as three of their four contests went to a tiebreaker.

No. 18 Luciana Braga played three frames in both her No. 1 matchups, on Friday prevailing 10-5 in the breaker after splitting 6-2 and 3-6 sets against FHSU's Shreethika Vangala, then on Saturday winning 10-4 by battling back from a 2-6 first set loss to Ani Zeikidze to force the third defeating the Jet 6-3.

At No. 2 singles, No. 39 Andjela Mrvaljevic came out on top 10-7 in the third after trading 6-3, 2-6 scores with FHSU's Irina Alfonso before dispatching Newman's Sofiko Zeikidze in straight sets 6-1, 6-2 on Saturday.

Braga also added a pair of doubles victories to go 4-0, teaming with Carmen Lyons for an 8-1 win over FHSU's Vangala/Fiorella Mendez tandem then paired with Ana Vasilis on Saturday to earn a hard fought 8-6 victory over Newman's A. Zeikidze/Nicole Bono.

Lyons followed her doubles win with a 10-5 tie break victory in the No. 4 singles slot, taking the first set 6-2 over Grace Unruh only to have the Tiger force the breaker with a 6-3 second set win.

Going 3-1 on the weekend, Mrvaljevic took her lone loss in Friday's doubles match with Andrea Pulido in coming up short 9-7 to the Tigers' Alfonso/Yone Pereiro pairing. The tandem bounced back on Saturday in being on the right side of another 9-7 score to knock off Newman's Luna Feillon/Antonia Ramos.

Pulido dropped both of her No. 3 singles matches, a 7-6, 6-3 defeat to FHSU' Unruh and twin 6-1 losses on Saturday to the Jets' Marie Brunet.

Getting the victory in Saturday's No. 1 doubles, Vasilis was teamed in her normal No. 3 tandem pairing with Ana Alice Tosetto Friday in picking up an 8-5 win over FHSU's Unruh/Bethan Gill.

Vasilis went 1-1 in No. 4 singles play dropping a 7-5, 6-2 decision to the Tigers' Mendez before wrapping up the weekend with a 10-7 victory having swapped 6-4 and 5-7 sets with Newman's Feillon. Tosetto dropped both No. 6 matches, a 6-1 twin sweep to the Tigers' Ines Steeman and a 6-1, 7-5 loss to the Jets' Martina Lolli. Lolli/Brunet earned the Jets a victory in the earlier No. 3 doubles by defeating Tosetto and Diana Souza 8-0. Filling in for Lyons on Saturday in the No. 4 singles, Souza dropped a 6-1, 6-3 loss to the Jets' Bono.