RSC Women's Tennis Individual Tournament Recap: Asbury shines in fall event
RSC Women's Tennis Individual Tournament Recap: Asbury shines in fall event
FINAL RESULTS
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. -- Asbury (Ky.) University won six of nine flights at the River States Conference Women's Tennis Individual Tournament held this past weekend at the Top Seed Tennis Club. The event crowns champions in nine different brackets and offers a preview of competition for the rest of the season inside the RSC and looking ahead to the RSC Championship in the spring.
Thais Mendez of IU East was the champion of the top flight, which was the Purple Draw. Mendez, the reigning RSC Women's Tennis Player of the Year, won the finals matchup versus Asbury's Alexandra Lerma. Mendez won in straights sets on the strength of a big tiebreaker in the first, 7-5, 6-1.
Asbury won four of the six singles draws and two of the three doubles draws. In singles, Grace Gorby won the Crimson Draw finals, 6-1, 6-3, over Camille Greenwell of IU Southeast. Luciana Iriarte won, 6-2, 6-2, over Reese Johnson of IU Kokomo, in the Blue Draw finals.
Asbury's Isabella Gutierrez won, 6-2, 6-0, over Kelsey Kohlmorgen of IU Kokomo in the White Draw finals. Asbury took the Black Draw finals over IU Kokomo when Alexa Slone won by default over fellow finalist Mayzie Hinkle of IU Kokomo.
IU Kokomo's Sophie Davidson won the Gray Draw finals of Asbury's Allie Sutton, 6-2, 6-2.
In doubles, Asbury had Lerma and Gorby win the Green Draw finals over IU Southeast's Winchell and Greenwell, 6-2. The Eagles claimed the doubles Silver Draw with Slone and Sutton beating Johnson and Davidson of IU Kokomo, 7-5.
IU Kokomo notched victory in the remaing doubles flight when Orlando and Kohlmorgen beat IU East's Schmidt and Ayres in the Gold Draw finals, 6-4.
Click the final results link above for the complete brackets from each draw.
RSC WOMEN'S TENNIS INDIVIDUAL TOURNAMENT -- AUG. 30-31, 2019
FINALS
Singles -- Purple Draw
Mendez (IU East) def. Lerma (Asbury), 7-5, 6-1
Singles -- Crimson Draw
Gorby (Asbury) def. Greenwell (IU Southeast), 6-1, 6-3
Singles -- White Draw
Iriarte (Asbury) def. Johnson (IU Kokomo), 6-2, 6-2
Singles -- White Draw
Gutierrez (Asbury) def. Kohlmorgen (IU Kokomo), 6-2, 6-0
Singles -- Gray Draw
Davidson (IU Kokomo) def. Sutton (Asbury), 6-2, 6-2
Singles -- Black
Slone (Asbury) won by default over Hinkle (IU Kokomo)
Doubles -- Green Draw
Lerma/Gorby (Asbury) def. Winchell/Greenwell (IU Southeast), 6-2
Doubles -- Gold Draw
Orlando/Kohlmorgen (IU Kokomo) def. Schmidt/Ayres (IU East), 6-4
Doubles -- Silver Draw
Slone/Sutton (Asbury) def. Johnson/Davidson (IU Kokomo), 7-5