Seward Grinds Out Win Over Tabor
In what proved to be their most competitive dual match of the 2015 season, the Seward County Lady Saints grinded out a 5-4 win over visiting Tabor Saturday afternoon at the campus courts at SCCC.
Both doubles matches that were played were lopsided, one for the Lady Saints and one for the Lady BlueJays. The 2nd ranked pair in the country, Seward's Paula Lopez and Paula Coyos easily defeated Tabor's Jessica Emoto and Becky Faber in #1 doubles 8-2 to give Seward a 2-0 lead after a default point at #3 doubles. In #2 doubles it was Tabor getting the win as Heidi Kloassen and Kiana Fujioka knocked off the Lady Saints Naomie Bukassa and Kellyn Peters by a count of 8-1 to make it 2-1 Seward heading to singles.
Coyos was the first to finish singles play as she hammered Faber 6-1, 6-1 in #2 action, along with another default win for Seward at #6, got them to within one point of clinching the match. Tabor was able to collect wins at #4 and #5 singles to make the score 4-3, but Lopez overcame a slow start to beat Emoto 7-6 (8), 6-1 in #1 play to seal the deal for Seward. The match of the day came at #3 singles where Kloassen outlasted Peters in a draining 6-4, 7-5 (10) win for the Jays.
The Lady Saints taste victory for the first time since late January as they improve to 2-3 on the season with the win. Seward also inches closer to the .500 mark in their individual records as they improve to 21-24 on the year.
After playing five four year schools to start the season, the Lady Saints will get a little bit better measuring stick of where they are at against junior college competition this week as they battle Barton on Tuesday in Great Bend and Cowley in Arkansas City on Saturday.