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Women's Tennis 3/16/2017 1:15:00 AM Mike Miranto, Associate A.D. for Communications

Women's Tennis Falls In Penultimate Match Of 2016-17 Season

EVANSVILLE, Ind. - Playing their second non-conference dual match in just over 24 hours, the Daemen College women's tennis team fell 8-1 to the University of Southern Indiana.

Daemen was going for its second consecutive win after defeating Franklin College 8-1 Tuesday evening to record the team's ninth win of the season, setting a new program record for wins in a season. Tonight's loss drops the Wildcats to 9-14 on the year.

USI, a member of the Great Lakes Valley Conference, improved to 6-4 on the season. The Soaring Eagles have now won three-straight matches, rebounding from an 0-4 stretch from Feb. 11 through Mar. 8.

USI swept through doubles play to open the match. Daemen got good efforts from seniors Karli Hollins (Orchard Park, N.Y./SUNY Geneseo) and Hayle Scanlan (Indianapolis, Ind./Perry Meridian) at the top of the lineup and from red-shirt senior Shaylah Iverson (Canandaigua, N.Y./Naples) and sophomore Morgan Park (Hamburg, N.Y./Hamburg) on the third doubles court, but both duos fell 8-5 and 8-4, respectively.

In singles play, only Scanlan could break through with a point for the Wildcats. She won 6-2, 4-6, 10-6 on the second singles court over USI's Brenna Wu who led the Soaring Eagles in singles wins a season ago. Scanlan is now 2-0 all-time in singles matches played in her home state of Indiana, and tonight's win upped her program-record number of career singles victories to 47, while also establishing a new team record for singles wins in a season with 14 this year.

Daemen concludes its 2016-17 season by visiting Bellarmine University Thursday (Mar. 16).

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Players Mentioned

Karli Hollins: 5' 5"; Senior

Morgan Park: 5' 2"; Sophomore

Hayle Scanlan: 5' 5"; Senior

Shaylah Iverson: 5' 6"; Redshirt Senior

Players Mentioned

Karli Hollins
: 5' 5"; Senior

Morgan Park
: 5' 2"; Sophomore

Hayle Scanlan
: 5' 5"; Senior

Shaylah Iverson
: 5' 6"; Redshirt Senior