GAME PROGRAM INFO
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Slippery Rock vs. California (Pa.)
The Rock (11-8)	Vulcans (14-6)
Roster	Roster
Schedule	Schedule
Statistics	Statistics
Coach Matt Meredith	Coach Anita Onufer
Program Records	-
PSAC Standings
PSAC Schedule
SRU Tennis Courts

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - The Slippery Rock University women's tennis team begins its quest for a conference title when it hosts California (Pa.) in the quarterfinal round of the 2025 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Tournament 3:30 p.m. Monday at the SRU Tennis Courts.
 
LIVE COVERAGE
Live in-match results for the PSAC Tournament quarterfinal match will be provided by the SRU Women's Tennis program at the links below.
 
MATCH 20 DETAILS
Opponent: California (Pa.)
Date: Monday – 3:30 p.m.
Location: SRU Tennis Courts
Live Results: Link
All-Time Series: Tied 17-17
Last Played: April 23, 2025 (SRU won 7-0)
 
PSAC TOURNAMENT FORMAT
The top three teams in the PSAC East and PSAC West standings qualified for the 2025 PSAC Tournament. The No. 2 seed in each division will host the third seed from its respective division in quarterfinal matches this week. The winners from those matches move on to cross over and play the top seed from the other division Friday in the PSAC Tournament semifinals.
 
The semifinals and championship matches will be held at Bloomsburg University. The conference championship match is slated to take place Saturday.
 
Under PSAC Tournament rules, doubles and singles matches shall be played in a "Clinch-Clinch" format. Doubles competition will cease when a team point is clinched. Singles matches will cease when a team has clinched the match with four total points.
 
In the PSAC West, Indiana University (Pa.) earned the top seed in the division followed by The Rock as the second seed and California as the third seed. Bloomsburg is the top seed out of the PSAC East with East Stroudsburg University and Millesville University rounding out the top three seeds.
 
PSAC TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Quarterfinals
#3W California at #2W Slippery Rock (Monday – 3:30 p.m.)
#3E East Stroudsburg at #2E Millesville (Tuesday – 4 p.m.)
BYES: Indiana (Pa.) / Bloomsburg
 
Semifinals
SRU/CAL vs. #1E Bloomsburg (Friday – 10 a.m.)
ESU/VILLE vs. #1W Indiana (Friday – 10 a.m.)
 
Finals
Saturday – Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
 
HOW THEY GOT HERE
Slippery Rock enters the PSAC Tournament as the No. 2 seed out of the PSAC West after producing a near perfect league record of 5-1 during the regular season. SRU comes into the conference tournament on a hot streak as The Rock has won five consecutive matches in shutout fashion. Slippery Rock solid 3-1 in matches at the SRU Tennis Courts this year.
 
California concluded the regular season with a 4-2 mark in PSAC West matches to earn the third seed in the division. The 2025 season has been a resurgence of sorts for the Cal, which ended the regular season with 14-6 for its first winning record since the 2016.
 
PSAC TOURNAMENT HISTORY
Slippery Rock will be making its seventh consecutive trip to the PSAC Tournament. SRU has won three PSAC championships all-time with league titles coming in 1980, 1981 and 2003.
 
SRU has advanced to the conference championships finals in four of the last five seasons the event has been held with its most recent trip to final match coming a year ago in a 4-2 loss to Indiana (Pa.).
 
A one-time force in the PSAC, California has won 12 PSAC Tournament championships all-time with 10 of those titles coming consecutively between 2007-16.
 
The Rock and Vulcans have met in the PSAC Tournament on only two prior occasions with California coming away victorious with 5-0 wins in both the 2008 and 2010 tournament championship matches.
 
A LOOK AT THE ATLANTIC REGION RANKINGS
• Slippery Rock was slotted third in the most recent set of Atlantic Region rankings released last week behind Charleston and Indiana (Pa). Fairmont State was ranked fourth followed by Salem, Shaw, Bloomsburg, Bluefield State and East Stroudsburg.
                                                                                                                    
• Conference Tournament champions from the PSAC, Mountain East Conference and Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association as well as the next four highest ranked teams in the region at the end of year qualify for the NCAA Tournament.
 
• The NCAA will unveil the complete 48-team tournament field 8:30 p.m. May 5 on NCAA.com.
 
• No stranger to the postseason, Slippery Rock has qualified for the NCAA Tournament 21 times dating back to the 1995-96 season. More recently, SRU has earned a spot in the national tournament in each of the last six years the event has been held.
 
• The full set of NCAA regional rankings can be found HERE.
 
PRESSURE PLAYERS
With only one freshman in its standard lineup, Slippery Rock has a wealth of postseason experience up and down its roster. Five members of SRU's 2025 roster has competed in – and won – in the postseason already in their careers during either conference tournament or NCAA Tournament competition.
 
 SRU Records in the Postseason (PSAC / NCAA Tournament)
• Amaia Balaguer Brau*: 4-1
• Dari Sakhanova: 4-4
• Tina Slovak: 3-4
• Georgie Lancaster: 2-1
• Nicole Kempton: 1-1
 
* Matches at Saint Thomas Aquinas included.
 
ANOTHER WINNING SEASON SECURED
At 11-8, Slippery Rock is assured of finishing the year with a winning record regardless of what happens in the postseason. SRU has now finished with a .500 or better winning percentage in 23 of 27 seasons under head coach Matt Meredith.
 
SERIES HISTORY
The Rock registered a 7-0 shutout of the Vulcans in SRU's regular season finale on April 23 to even the all-times series at 17-17. Full results from the win can be found HERE.
 
Slippery Rock has claimed eight consecutive victories over California. Seven of those wins have come by way of shutout. The Rock last lost to the Vulcans in 2016.
 
Individually, no active Rock athlete has lost a singles match over their careers against competitors from California.
 
Dari Sakhanova (4-0)
2024-25: Lilli Schreiber (Won - 6-0, 6-2)
2024-25: Teddi Isherwood (Won - 6-2, 6-4)
2023-24: Lilli Schreiber (Won - 6-0, 6-1)
2022-23: Maria Ojeda (Won - 6-1, 6-0)
 
Tina Slovak (3-0)
2024-25: Garance Laforet (Won - 6-0, 6-4)
2023-24: Bega Gotor (Won - 6-0, 6-0)
2022-23: Kylie Feltenberger (Won - 6-0, 6-1)
 
Nicole Kempton (3-0)
2024-25: Leandra Guldimann (Won - 6-2, 6-1)
2024-25: Leandra Guldimann (Won - 6-1, 6-3)
2023-24: Maria Del Mar Ojeda (Won - 6-0, 6-1)
 
Amaia Balaguer Brau (2-0)
2024-25: Teddi Isherwood (Won -6-4, 4-6, 11-9)
2023-24: Diletta Maria Mungo (Won - 6-2, 6-1)
 
Alissia Kivi (1-0)
2024-25: Diletta Maria Mungo (W- 6-1, 7-5)
 
Georgie Lancaster (1-0)
2024-25: Anika Hedrich (Won - 6-1, 6-2)
 
Alissia Kivi / Nicole Kempton (1-0)
2024-25: Teddi Isherwood / Leandra Guldimann (Won - 6-4)
 
Amaia Balaguer Brau / Tina Slovak (1-0)
2024-25: Diletta Maria Mungo / Garance Laforet (Won - 6-0)
 
Dari Sakhanova / Georgie Lancaster (1-0)
2024-25: Lilli Schreiber / Anika Hedrich (Won - 6-0)
 
SAKHANOVA ON THE CUSP OF HISTORY
After her wins at fifth singles and at third doubles - with Georgie Lancaster – last week against California, Dari Sakhanova's career victory total now stands at 98, positioning her just two wins away from becoming the 15th athlete in program history record 100 wins in a career.  
 
Teammate Tina Slovak is not far off Sakhanova's paced with 92 wins of her own.
 
Kayla Blackburn (2005-09) is The Rock's all-time leader in wins with 191. A full list of The Rock's 100-win club can be viewed HERE.
 
ITA RANKINGS
National Singles (April 23)
No. 35: Amaia Balaguer Brau (SRU)
 
National Doubles (April 23)
No. 35: Nicole Kempton / Alissia Kivi (SRU)
 
Regional Singles (Nov. 13)
No. 1: Amaia Balaguer Brau (SRU)
No. 6: Alissia Kivi (SRU)
No. 10: Dari Sakhanova (SRU)
No. 11: Nicole Kempton (SRU)
No. 20: Tina Slovak (SRU)
 
Regional Doubles (Nov. 13)
No. 2: Nicole Kempton / Alissia Kivi (SRU)
No. 6: Dari Sakhanova / Tina Slovak (SRU)
No. 9: Amaia Balaguer Brau / Georgie Lancaster (SRU)
No. 10: Teddi Isherwood / Leandra Guldimann (CAL)
 
SLIPPERY ROCK PRIMER
• Roster: Link
• Stats: Link
• Overall Record: 11-8
• Atlantic Region Rankings: Third
• PSAC West Record: 5-1
• PSAC West Seed: No. 2
• Home Record: 3-1
• Away Record: 6-4
• Neutral Site Record: 2-3
• Streak: W5
• Last Five Matches: 5-0
• Head Coach: Matt Meredith | 27th season (389-222, .637)
 
SCOUTING THE ROCK
• Slippery Rock has earned the doubles point in 14 of its 19 matches this season. Leading The Rock's doubles contingent is the nationally ranked duo of Nicole Kempton and Alissia Kivi.
 
• Kempton and Kivi – currently the 35th-ranked team in Division II – enter Monday on a five-match winning streak and in possession of a 24-6 overall record and a 14-4 mark from the first flight.
 
• Amaia Balaguer Brau and Tina Slovak have been nearly flawless out of The Rock's second flight where the duo has compiled a 15-3 record in addition to seven straight wins. Only one of their losses in 2025 have come against a team from the Atlantic Region.
 
• Georgie Lancaster and Dari Sakhanova have come on strong as of late in No. 3 doubles action with four consecutive wins to boost their record comfortably above the .500 mark at 9-7.
 
• One of the top players in not only the Atlantic Region, but all of Division II, Balaguer Brau anchors The Rock's standard singles lineup. Ranked the No. 35 athlete in the country in last week's rankings, Balaguer Brau is making a strong push towards repeating as PSAC West Athlete of the Year with a 23-8 overall singles record that's included a 14-5 dual match showing and a perfect 6-0 conference record. She'll enter the PSAC Tournament on a 10-matching winning streak.
 
• One of the most promising rookies in the PSAC West, Kivi has enjoyed a stellar freshman season to date with a 20-7 overall record and a 13-3 tally out of the second flight. Kivi, who has won each of her last seven matches, is 5-1 against her PSAC West counterparts.
 
• In the midst of an eight-matching winning streak of her own, Kempton matched Balaguer Brau during the regular season with a perfect 6-0 PSAC West record which has bolstered her overall mark in 2024-25 to 18-8 and her dual match record to 13-6 (13-3 from the third flight).
 
• A trio of Rock veterans make up the back half of SRU's singles lineup. Typically Slippery Rock's fourth-flight entrant, Slovak is 12-9 overall and 11-6 in dual matches. Sakhanova has tallied an 18-9 overall record as a junior to go with a 10-5 record out of the fifth flight with Lancaster rounding out the group at 12-11 overall and 9-8 in dual matches.
 
CALIFORNIA PRIMER
• Roster: Link
• Stats: Link
• Overall Record: 14-6
• PSAC West Record: 4-2
• PSAC West Standings: No. 3
• Home Record: 4-3
• Away Record: 6-2
• Neutral Site Record: 4-1
• Streak: L1
• Last Five Matches: 3-2
• Head Coach: Anita Onufer | Sixth season (40-52, .435)
 
PROBABLE LINEUP (DUAL MATCH RECORD)
Singles
1-Teddi Isherwood (11-6)
2-Diletta Maria Mungo (15-4)
3-Leandra Guldimann (10-6)
4-Garance Laforet (12-6)
5-Lilli Schreiber (10-7)
6-Anika Hedrich (7-6)
Doubles
1-Isherwood / Guldimann (11-7)
2-Mungo / Laforet (4-3)
3-Hedrich / Izabelle Heacox (3-2)
 
UP NEXT
If victorious, Slippery Rock will meet Bloomsburg in the PSAC Tournament semifinals 10 a.m. Friday at BU. Were The Rock to lose to California their season is likely not over as SRU would still be a strong candidate to earn an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament.
 
 
 
 
 

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