Results
 
ORLANDO, Fla. - The Slippery Rock University women's tennis team had its four-match winning streak snapped in a narrow 4-3 setback against Dallas Baptist University Wednesday at the Lake Cane Tennis Center in Orlando, Florida.
 
The Rock's record moves to 4-3 following the loss while the Patriots improve to 13-2. Wednesday's matchup was a back-and-forth contest that came down to the day's final point.     
 
As it has done in all but two matches this season, Slippery Rock once again earned the doubles point Wednesday thanks to victories out of the second and third flights.
 
SRU's top doubles team of Adriana Gonzalez Sanchez and Teddi Isherwood lost to Jenna Payne and Angela Charles-Alfred, 6-1, but The Rock were able to counter the loss in the second flight where Gabriela del Val del Toro and Nuria Martin Lopez bested Madison Stafford and Caroline Hudson, 6-2.
 
The win for Martin Lopez and del Val del Toro was their 10th of the year.
 
Slippery Rock then captured the first team point of the day by way of a 6-4 victory for Tina Slovak and Dari Sakhanova against Isabella Arana Rios and Sofia Teran from the third flight as Slovak and Sakhanova improved to a perfect 5-0 as a team.
 
DBU, which has now won seven of its last eight contests, took the first two points of the singles portion of the match as Stafford defatted Isherwood 6-0, 6-0 from the fifth flight and Charles-Alfred bettered Gonzalez Sanchez in the first flight 6-2, 6-1. Charles-Alfred was ranked as the No. 36 singles athlete in Division II in the most recent ITA rankings released Wednesday.
 
The Patriots lead proved to be short-lived as Slippery Rock and Dallas Baptist proceeded to trade victories over the following three completed matches.
 
del Val del Toro downed Hudson in second-flight competition 6-1, 6-2 while Sakhanova was a 6-2, 6-3 winner against Leonie Schondelmaier in the fifth flight with a 5-1, 7-6 sixth-flight setback by Georgie Lancaster against Teran sandwiched between the two SRU wins to set up a winner-take-all situation with the fourth flight contest between Martin Lopez and Rios yet to finish.
 
Rios and Martin Lopez split the opening two sets with respective 6-3 wins before Rios narrowly earned a 6-4 victory to clinch the match for Dallas Baptist.
 
Sakhanova has now won five of her first six singles matches in a Rock uniform while del Val del Toro improved to 15-4 on the year following her win.
 
Slippery Rock closes its spring break trip 11 a.m. Friday against No. 34 Saint Thomas Aquinas at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida.
 



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