ST. LOUIS – UIndy women's tennis is heading to the Great Lakes Valley Conference championship after a strong singles showing Sunday, defeating Lewis 5-2 in the tournament semifinals at the Dwight Davis Tennis Center.

It is the second GLVC championship appearance in the last three seasons for the 13th-ranked Greyhounds (16-3), dropping Lewis to 16-7 overall.

The Greyhounds scored Sunday's first point at No. 3 doubles, where newcomers Mara Hofstetter and Bella Bergman defeated Lewis' Megan Conlin and Hailey Bruining, 8-4.

But Lewis claimed the next two, including a rubber match at No. 1 between the nationally-ranked duos of Hanna Volikova and Florence Renard from UIndy, and Dora Andrejszki and Nora Mindiyarova from Lewis.

The Flyer pair won back in the fall in the ITA Regional Championship match, and UIndy won most recently in the teams' regular season meeting, but it was Lewis again that prevailed Sunday, 8-6.

At No. 2, the Flyers' Oana Trus and Sara Grozdanovic won a closely-contested 8-6 decision against UIndy seniors Stephanie Hirsch and Selenay Heper.

Trailing after doubles for the first time in eight matches, the Hounds needed to win at least four of the six singles bouts.

Heper wasted little time leveling the score at No. 6 singles, defeating Bruining 6-2, 6-0 for her seventh consecutive win.

Hofstetter followed to give the Hounds a 3-2 advantage with an identical 6-2, 6-0 victory at No. 5 against Conlin, also good for her seventh singles win in a row.

All-GLVC selection Hirsch exacted a measure of revenge against Trus in No. 3 singles, winning 6-3, 6-4 to put UIndy on the brink of overall victory, 4-2.

With courts one and four both nearing an end, it was Bergman who ultimately pushed the Hounds into the title match with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Grozdanovic at No. 4.

Volikova was leading 6-4, 5-1 over Andrejszki in a battle of nationally-ranked singles players at No. 1, and Renard had a set in hand at No. 2 against Mindiyarova, up 6-1, 6-6 when the match ended.

UIndy will look to build on its league-best nine titles Monday morning, with No. 14 Drury standing in the way of the Hounds' 10th championship. The Panthers (20-2) defeated Missouri-St. Louis 5-4 in Sunday's other semifinal, which lasted nearly five hours. 

It will be a rematch of the 2015 GLVC Championship, which the Greyhounds won 5-2.