Box Score MOBILE, Ala. -- The Lindsey Wilson College women's tennis team continued its run through the NAIA National Championships with a 5-4 upset win over No. 6-seed California Baptist University today at the Mobile Tennis Center.
The Blue Raiders advance to play third seeded Berry (Ga.) College -- who defeated Xavier (La.) University 5-3 today -- at 1 p.m. CT on Thursday.
Lindsey Wilson (12-4) trailed 2-1 following doubles play. The Blue Raiders managed to win at No. 1 doubles as the team of junior Jessica Weyreuter and freshman Vanja Tomic beat Marcela Montanha and Dunya Wren 8-3 but dropped the remaining doubles matches to fall behind.
The Blue Raiders tied the match at 4-4 with wins at No. 1, No. 2 and No. 5 singles while dropping matches at No. 4 and No. 6. Every match was decided in straight sets.
The decisive match proved to be No. 3 singles as Weyreuter captured the first set 6-4 and led in the second set -- she served for the match on two different occasions in the set -- before California Baptist's Jelena Savic came back to win the set in a tiebreaker.
Despite the momentum change, Weyreuter refused to go down winning the third set 6-3 to help the Blue Raiders advance.
Doubles:
#1 - Jessica Weyreuter/Vanja Tomic (LW) def. Marcela Montanha/Dunya Wren (CB) 8-3
#2 - Jelena Savic/Jessica Roddy (CB) def. Trina Slapeka/Darya Yablonskaya (LW) 9-8 (8)
#3 - Raquel Vescovi/Maiara Oliveira (CB) def. Agnieszka Wojtowicz (LW) 8-5
Singles:
#1 - Slapeka (LW) def. Montanha (CB) 6-3, 6-1
#2 - Tomic (LW) def. Vescovi (CB) 6-1, 6-4
#3 - Weyreuter (LW) def. Savic (CB) 6-4, 6-7, 6-3
#4 - Wren (CB) def. Yablonskaya (LW) 6-1, 7-6
#5 - Wojtowicz (LW) def. Avrelie Hascoet (CB) 7-6, 6-4
#6 - Oliveira (CB) def. Lindsey Sheene (LW) 6-0, 6-1