Racers End Fall With Dominating Performance

Friday, November 7

Jonesboro, Ark.

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Murray State

Arkansas State

Photo by: Murray State Sports Information

11/9/2014 10:36:00 AM | Women's Tennis

Red Wolf Results

Murray State women's tennis produced a combined singles and doubles record of 26-7 at the Red Wolf Invitational at Allen Park in Jonesboro, Ark.

The event hosted by Arkansas State, capped the fall season for the Racers and sends them into the winter before they defend their Ohio Valley Conference title in the spring of 2015.

Murray State and Arkansas State were joined in the event by: Missouri State, Southeast Missouri, Southern Illinois, UT Martin and Western Kentucky.

"I'm very happy with the way our girls played and competed this weekend," said MSU coach Jorge Caetano. "We played very good tennis overall and won a lot of matches against some good competition which proves we're on the right track. We've been working a lot on being aggressive and taking control of matches and that's just what they did many times this fall."

When the weekend was totaled, the Racers won 4-of-5 flights and went 17-6 in singles play. They won 2-of-3 of doubles flights and were 9-1.

Indeed, the Racers head into winter with loads of confidence.

"Our team just works hard and improves every day and it is always good to see them competing for wins," Caetano said. "It was also great to see our newcomers finish the fall undefeated. We have a very special group who work extremely hard. We're going to keep working hard and I can't wait to see them all competing in the spring."

Here is a wrap on the Racers' efforts at Arkansas State.

MSU's Andrea Eskauriatza (1^st flight) and Nancy Karaky (3^rd flight) each captured all three of her matches and didn't lose a set in taking the championship of their flights.

Alena Vasileva took a share of the 4^th flight title and also went 3-0 and she didn't lose a set. She shared the 4^th flight title with teammate Erin Patton .

Other Racers played at a high level with Megan Blue going 2-1 with her only loss coming in a third set battle as she placed third in the 2^nd flight

Verginie Tchakarova went 2-1 on the weekend at ASU and was the 2^nd flight runner-up. Additionally, Suzaan Stoltz battled in three matches and placed fifth in the 5th flight.

The Racers were equally dominating In doubles competition. The Tchakarova sisters shared the title of the 1^st flight with teammates Eskauriatza and Karaky, each pair was 2-0. In the 2^nd flight, Patton and Blue were 2-1 and placed third, while Vasileva and Stoltz were 3-0 and won the 3^rd flight title.