Bolivar, Mo. – The week began with a Monday afternoon tennis match between the Bearcats and the Lindenwood Lions at the John Bryant Tennis Center on the campus of Southwest Baptist University. SBU completed a clean sweep of the Lions, winning the match 7-0 to improve to 11-5 (1-0 GLVC) on the year. The women's team is 2-1 against teams in the GLVC, but the conference standings are divided into a West division and an East division. SBU has only played one member of the GLVC West division, going 1-0 in divisional play.
 
Catarina Zheng and Constanca Crespo got things going with a 6-2 win on court 1. Doubles teams of Dona Abohabaga and Elsa Pascual on court 2 and Diana Cabrera and Lola Cincunegui on court 3 finished with identical scores of 6-3 to sweep doubles play and take a 1-0 lead.
 
The first three courts were absolutely dominated by SBU. They outscored Lindenwood by a combined score of 36-4. Constanca Crespo was the first to finish, winning 6-1, 6-0 on court 3. Dona Abohabaga followed shortly after with a 6-1, 6-2 victory on court 1, and Diana Cabrera won the match point with a two-set clean sweep of her opponent 6-0, 6-0 on court 2. Catarina Zheng battled a tough first set to win 7-5, going on to win her second set 6-0 on court 4. Another two-set victory was claimed by Lola Cincunegui on court 6, winning 6-4, 6-2. Completing the 7-0 sweep of the Lions was Elsa Pascual, downing her opponent 6-4, 6-3 on court 5.
 
The team will head to the Kansas City area this weekend, taking on GLVC West opponents in Rockhurst and William Jewell.