Seward Blanks Hesston in Regular Season Finale
The 14th ranked Seward County Lady Saints will have some momentum going into the upcoming NJCAA Region VI Tournament after blanking the visiting Hesston Larks 9-0 in their 2015 regular season finale Thursday afternoon at Blue Bonnet Park in Liberal.
The Lady Saints and Larks kicked things off with doubles play and it was a whitewashing in favor of Seward. In #1 doubles, 2nd ranked Paula Lopez and Paula Coyos put on one of the most dominating performances you will ever see, losing just a single point in an 8-0 shutout win. Kellyn Peters and Xochitl Gonzalez followed suit at #2, winning easily 8-2 to put the Lady Saints up 2-0 and Naomie Bukassa and Grace Golden earned themselves an 8-1 win at #3 doubles to give Seward the 3-0 sweep in pair play.
It was more of the same if not even more dominant for Seward County in singles action where Lopez, Coyos, and Peters all won 6-0, 6-0 in the top three spots of the lineup to clinch the match win for the Lady Saints. Bukassa put together her most complete match of the year at #4 singles, downing Adrienne Derstine 6-1, 6-0 while Gonzalez won 6-2, 6-1 in straight sets at #5 and Golden picked up her fourth win of the season with a 6-1, 6-3 victory at #6 to complete the 9-0 sweep for the Lady Saints.
Seward finishes the regular season 5-7 overall and evens their individual match record at 54-54 for the 2015 season.
Next up for the Lady Saints will be a two week layoff before hitting the courts once again on April 24th when they head to Arkansas City to compete at the NJCAA Region VI Championship.