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Women, men fall in second round of Ohio Valley tennis tournament


Both the Skyhawk men and women’s tennis teams fell to Tennessee Tech in the second round of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament.

The women’s team, which had gone undefeated to pick up the regular season title and had a first round bye, was defeated 4-1 by No. 4 Tech.

TTU won the doubles point after UTM was only able to grab a single win from the pair of Elizma Schoonees and Ernestine Koornhof. Two of the singles matches were suspended due to weather and the Skyhawk women were only able to take one point on the win from Schoonees.

The No. 3 ranked Samford women’s team would go on to defeat TTU for the tournament title.

The men’s team who finished the regular season in fourth place, grabbed a 4-2 win over Eastern Ky. in the first round before falling 4-0 to first place ranked Tech in the second round. TTU, the regular season men’s champ would go on to grab the tourney title as well. The men were unable to grab any wins in both doubles and singles play.

And as with the women’s matches, three of the singles matches were suspended to the incliment weather.