Full Results
 
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The Slippery Rock University women's tennis team earned a 6-1 victory against Seton Hill University Saturday at the SRU Tennis Courts in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Western Division competition.
 
With the win, Slippery Rock improves its record to 6-5 overall and 4-1 in the PSAC West while the Griffins drop to 4-4 overall and 3-3 in league matches. SRU has now won five of its last six matches and is 6-2 against Division II opponents this year.
 
Saturday's win clinched a berth for The Rock in the upcoming PSAC Tournament. SRU will enter the conference tournament as the second seed out of the PSAC West. As the second seed, Slippery Rock will host the third seed from the PSAC West in a a first round PSAC Tournament match April 24.
 
The Rock's first round opponent has not yet been determined, but will likely be Mercyhurst University in what would be a rematch of the 2019 PSAC Tournament championship match. SRU defeated Mercyhurst, 4-3, earlier in the season.
 
SRU swept the Griffins in doubles play before taking five of the six singles matches en route to Saturday's victory.
 
As they have done for the majority of the year, The Rock's top doubles team of Lois Page and Adriana Gonzalez Sanchez got SRU off to a great start Saturday courtesy of a 6-0 victory against Jenna Bailey and Kaelyn Zak. Page and Gonzalez Sanchez, the 23rd ranked doubles team in the nation, are now 8-3 in 2021.
 
SRU promptly clinched the doubles point when Amy Varckette and Lauren Fadden defeated Katlyn Walch and Marlayna Verenna, 6-3, in the third flight.
 
Olivia Warner and Gabi del Val del Toro concluded the doubles portion of Saturday's match with a 6-4 win over Kendall McCluskey and Cameron Beer in the second flight. The contest marked just the second time this season that Warner and del Val del Toro have competed as a team.
 
Lacey Cohen started the singles matches off by registering the 128th victory of her outstanding career as she bested Bailey 6-1, 6-0 from the third flight.
 
Fadden followed Cohen by turning in a decisive 6-2, 6-1 win of her own over McCluskey in the sixth flight. Warner proceeded to clinch the team victory for SRU by way of a 6-2, 6-0 victory against Verenna from the fifth slot.
 
With the team victory already sealed, The Rock picked up two more wins on the day as del Val del Toro bettered Walch in the fourth flight 6-2, 6-0 and Gonzalez Sanchez downed Beer in the second flight 6-2, 6-1. Both Gonzalez Sanchez and del Val del Toro are 9-2 this year with respective winning streaks of nine and seven matches.
 
Seton Hill was able to avoid the shutout when Zak defeated Page in the top flight 7-5, 6-1.
 
Slippery Rock closes out the weekend with an Atlantic Region match against Bluefield State College 1 p.m. Sunday at the SRU Tennis Courts.
 
 


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