Lady Saints Strong at Top, Struggle at Bottom in Loss to Cowley
The good news for the #16 Seward County Lady Saints is, their top two players, Paula Lopez and Paula Coyos didn't lose a match on Monday in a big regional matchup with #9 Cowley. The bad news for Seward is, nobody else was able to follow their lead as the Lady Saints lost the other six matches in the dual to fall to the Tigers 6-3.
On paper it looked to be a dynamite matchup at #1 doubles between Seward's 5th ranked duo of Lopez and Coyos and Cowley's 11th ranked pair of Hannah Brown and Ana Ruzir, but Cowley decided to switch up their lineup and instead of Ruzir the Lady Saints got unranked Shali Schopflin and took advantage, winning rather easily 8-3 to give Seward its first point of the match. Ruzir would play at #2 doubles and paired with Erianne Adams for the Tigers to bounce the Lady Saints Jackie Arnold and Kathryn Roohan 8-2 to tie the match at 1. In #3 doubles it was again Cowley earning the point with an 8-3 win to give them a 2-1 lead into singles play.
In singles action it was a great matchup between 14th ranked Lopez and 8th ranked Ruzir at the top spot. Lopez took the first with ease 6-1 before Ruzir answered with a 6-4 win in the second set to force a tiebreak. In the tiebreak it was all Lopez as the Lady Saints freshman won a 10-2 decision to take the match. In #2 singles 27th ranked Coyos had her way with 32nd ranked Sarah Giraldo, winning 6-2, 6-2 to give Seward a 3-2 lead. But, it was Cowley who dominated the final four spots, winning 6-0, 6-0 at #4 and #6 singles and 6-3, 6-1 at #3 and #5 to take home the match 6-3.
#16 SEWARD COUNTY/#9 COWLEY MATCH RESULTS
Seward drops their third match in four outs as they fall to 6-5 on the year and 1-1 in Jayhawk Conference action.