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CALIFORNIA, Pa. – Gabriela del Val del Toro became the 14th athlete in program history to record 100 career victories following a 7-0 win by the Slippery Rock University women's tennis team Tuesday against California (Pa.) at the Roadman Park Tennis Complex.
 
The Rock's win, their seventh in the last eight matches, improves SRU's record to 13-7 overall and 5-1 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Western Division. California ends its year at 7-12 overall and 1-5 in league play.
 
Tuesday's shutout, Slippery Rock's fourth such win of the season, served as final tune-up for SRU which will now turn its attention to a home PSAC Tournament opening-round match Thursday against Mercyhurst University.
 
del Val del Toro joined The Rock's elite club after earning a second flight singles victory as well as a win with partner Nuria Martin Lopez in the No. 2 doubles flight. A proven winner, del Val del Toro has compiled a 63-14 (.818) singles record and 37-25 (.597) doubles mark so far in her SRU career.
 
Making the 100-win accomplishment all the more impressive is the fact that del Val del Toro reached the milestone in just three years, one of which being an abbreviated 2020-21 season that featured just 15 dual matches and no individual tournament competition.
 
The match itself saw The Rock's freshmen tandem of Tina Slovak and Dari Sakhanova open the day by registering their seventh consecutive win out of the third doubles flight following a 6-3 besting of Sierra Everett and Anna Oblock.
 
SRU's nationally ranked top-flight pairing of Teddi Isherwood and Adriana Gonzalez Sanchez, the No. 49 doubles team in all of Division II, then clinched the team point by way of a 6-2 triumph over Leandra Guldimann and Diletta Maria Mungo.
 
del Val del Toro and Martin Lopez furthered Slippery Rock's momentum via a 6-3 win against Carmen Duran and Maria Ojeda to close out the doubles round.
 
The back portion of Slippery Rock's singles lineup quickly secured the team victory. Isherwood began the singles portion of the match by tallying a second straight win from the sixth flight as she blanked Olivia Hoin 6-0, 6-0.
 
Slovak proceeded to wrap up her perfect PSAC West record by defeating Kylie Feltenberger 6-0, 6-1 before Martin Lopez clinched The Rock's team win out of the fourth flight against Duran (6-1, 6-1). The victory pushed Martin Lopez's personal winning streak to a team-long nine matches.
 
The remainder of the day featured Sakhanova defeating Ojeda in the third flight (6-1, 6-0), del Val del Toro officially posting her 100th victory via a 6-4, 6-1 win against Guldimann and Gonzalez Sanchez concluding the match in a 6-3, 6-3 first flight win over Mungo.
 
With the regular season now concluded, Slippery Rock will begin its quest for a league title when it hosts Mercyhurst in the PSAC Tournament quarterfinals 4 p.m. Thursday at the SRU Tennis Courts.
 
 


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