Springfield, Mo. – The Southwest Baptist University Bearcats captured a 5-2 victory in today's MIAA Women's Tennis Championship.  The Bearcats jumped out to an early 3-0 lead after sweeping all three doubles matches.  SBU continued their winning ways with victories in #1 and #3 singles leading to their third straight conference championship.

The Bearcats again played strong across the board, sweeping doubles action for the third straight day with victories coming from Fanni Varga/Christina Zentai, Adrienn Kovacs/Faiga Schmidt, and Mehak Singh/Andjela Panovski.  In singles, the bearcats received victories from Fanni Varga and Christina Zentai to finish off the day with a conference championship.  

The Bearcats will now wait to see who their opponent will be in the NCAA South Central Regional tournament.  On Tuesday April, 23, the bracket will be released.

#35 Southwest Baptist 5, #37 Northeastern State 2

Singles

#39 Fanni Varga (SBU) def. Ivana Belejova (NSU) 6-4, 6-1
Kristina Savchenkov (NSU) def. Mehak Singh (SBU) 6-1, 7-5
Christina Zentai (SBU) vs. Martina Bruzikova (NSU) 6-1, 6-2
Jeanne Mallem (NSU) def. Faiga Schmidt (SBU) 6-1, 6-0

Doubles

Varga/Zentai (SBU) def. #19 Belejova/Savchenkov (NSU) 8-5
Kovacs/Schmidt (SBU) def. Mallem/Bellamine (NSU) 8-3
Singh/Panovski (SBU) def. Bruzikova/Jirickova (NSU) 8-3