Results

ST. LOUIS – The UIndy women's tennis team fell 5-2 to 21st-ranked Drury (19-4, 6-0 GLVC) in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament semifinal Saturday. It's the second year in a row the Greyhounds fell to the Panthers in the conference's semifinal match.

While UIndy holds more GLVC Championships than any other program (eight), Drury has won six of last the last seven, and have a chance to increase that number Sunday.

The Hounds (11-6, 5-1) started out strong out of the gate, taking two of the three doubles matches to put the top-ranked team in the Midwest Region on their heels.

Selenay Heper and Macey Speer defeated Hadeil Ali and Samanta Zambrano, the region's fourth-ranked tandem, in a tough 9-8 match in No. 2 singles, marking the duo's ninth win as a pair.

Brooke Boyts and Kasey Land continued their rock solid doubles play in an 8-1 win over Yasemin Glasgow and Natalia Kozel in No. 3, improving to 15-2 this season.

The eighth-ranked pair of Allie Smith and Taylor Eckert fell 8-6 in a close match against the third-ranked duo, Stefanie Monsch and Lara Muller on court one.

Following doubles action, Drury, which boasts four regionally-ranked singles player, took the first four completed singles bouts to complete the comeback victory.
Muller won 6-0, 6-2 in No. 2 over Maria Mendes, and one court over fourth-ranked Kozel won 6-4, 6-0 against Eckert.

Monsch and Zambrano, ranked 19th and seventh in the region, respectively, won Nos. 4 and 5 for Drury's other two points. UIndy's Heper lost just her fifth singles match of the season in No. 4, and Speer fell in a hard-fought 6-2, 1-6, 6-2 three-set decision in No. 5.

Smith and Boyts were both competing in singles when Drury won the match.

The Greyhounds have a chance to capture their second consecutive third-place finish with a match against host Missouri-St. Louis (15-6, 5-1 GLVC) Sunday at 10 a.m. ET.