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Women's Tennis

Bulldogs Give Drury A Battle In GLVC Road Match

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Sydney Dial and Finley Laforge picked up singles wins for the Truman State Tennis team in their Great Lakes Valley Conference road tilt with Drury University on Saturday.

Dial took the first set 6-1 in the number one singles match but opponent Antenna Novak claimed the second set 6-4 to force the tie-breaker set. Dial outlasted Novik 10-8 to get the big victory.

Laforge won 7-6 (7-1) in her opening set at number four singles over Eliza Verstappen and then took the match with a 6-2 tally in set two.

Nayana Malangi was able to force a tie-breaking set after falling behind 6-1 in the first. She would battle back to take the second 7-5 before dropping the tiebreaker 10-4.

In all the Bulldogs executed on the courts against one of the top teams in Division II on Saturday.

Truman State will round out their GLVC slate of matches with a trip to Quincy next Saturday. 

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Players Mentioned

Sydney Dial

Sydney Dial

Junior
Finley Laforge

Finley Laforge

Freshman
Nayana Malangi

Nayana Malangi

Freshman

Players Mentioned

Sydney Dial

Sydney Dial

Junior
Finley Laforge

Finley Laforge

Freshman
Nayana Malangi

Nayana Malangi

Freshman