PELLA, Iowa – The Truman State Women's Tennis team completed a season sweep over Central College with a 6-1 victory on Wednesday afternoon. The Bulldogs will return to conference play on Friday at Southwest Baptist with the first serve slated for 1 p.m.
With the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles matches split at 6-3 scores, the doubles point boiled down to the No. 3 match. Mary Grace Seymour and
Finley Laforge, tied 5-5 against Keleigh Hall and Madi Whalen, won the final two games for a 7-5 victory to secure the team point.
The Bulldogs clinched the team win with
Sydney Dial,
Nayana Malangi, and
Akansha Negi each winning in straight sets at Nos. 1, 2, and 3 singles.
Laforge split sets at No. 4 before winning the tiebreak 10-5. Seymour, credited by Coach
Steve Smith for playing one of her best matches of the season, rallied from a set down to win 6-3, and 10-5 in the tiebreak.
The Bulldogs had won the earlier fall meeting with Central 5-2.