Score: No. 1 Keiser 4, Division II, No. 17 Tampa 3
Records: Keiser (17-1), Tampa (10-7)
Venue: Naimoli & Young Complex
Location: Tampa, Fla.



Facing their 15th and final regular season ranked opponent, No. 1 Keiser women's tennis took down Division II, No. 17 Tampa 4-3 on Tuesday afternoon in Tampa, Fla. The Seahawks end the regular season with a 14-1 record against ranked opponents, and 6-1 in ranked Division II matches.

• The No. 6 ranked pairing of Elyse Lavender and Yvette Schmucker were back together in doubles for the first time since March 1. The duo showed no signs of time lost with a 6-0 win over Tatiana Harrelson and Aleks Topalovic.
• Tampa countered on court one with the No. 8 ranked Division II duo of Raquel Amaro and Victoria Sanchez besting Isabella Perez Flores and Vanja Vidanovic.
• The doubles point would come down to court two where Anine Wilberg and Savannah Williams would defeat No. 1 Violet Apisah and Ksenija Vujacic, 7-5.

• Perez Flores made up for her doubles loss with a quick 6-2, 6-0 win on court six to tie the match at 1-1.
• D-II, No. 15 Amaro picked up a second point for the Spartans on court one over No. 1 Apisah, 6-3, 6-0.
• No. 7 Schmucker tied the match at 2-2 on court four with a 6-3, 6-1 win.
• Keiser would take their first lead of the match with No. 2 Lavender's win on court two over Williams, 6-0, 6-2.
• No. 14 Vidanovic clinched the match on court five, winning 6-3, 6-2 over Rebecca Presley.
• Tampa grabbed the final point on court three but Keiser would take the 4-3 overall victory.

"First and foremost, happy to get a good road win today." said Head Coach, Daniel Finn, "It's never easy to travel across the state and play a quality opponent on the same day. Even more so when the other team has a good home-court advantage and with it being their senior day a pretty good crowd. We definitely had to dig in to get this one today after giving up the doubles point early. Tampa came out a lot more enthusiastic and just wanted the points more than we did. Fortunately, with enough experience in the depth of our lineup, we were able to pull through. Looking back, the girls have played one of the toughest schedules that I believe we have ever put together and have already accomplished a lot. One of the main reasons they have had a successful season so far has been due to having a short-term memory and focusing on the next match and they will need to do that again after this one. After today we saw a few things that we still need to improve on going into the conference tournament next week and will spend the rest of the week making those adjustments and preparing for a tough tournament postseason ahead."




Keiser will have some time off to prepare for the postseason as the Sun Conference Regular Season Champions will receive a first-round bye to the Sun Conference Tournament beginning on April 26 in Brunswick, Ga.

 

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