GOLDEN SUNS DROP HOME MATCH LAST THURSDAY TO HARDING

        RUSSELLVILLE, Arkansas – Arkansas Tech Golden Suns Tennis continued Gulf South Conference play here last Thursday by falling 7-2 to Harding at the Chartwells Women’s Sports Complex.

With the loss, Tech dropped its record to 7-5 overall and 0-2 in the GSC, while Harding, who is fourth in the NCAA D-II South Region, improved to 10-2 overall and ran its winning streak to eight straight.

The Lady Bisons opened the match by taking all three doubles matches, including winning at No. 1 and No. 2 doubles by identical 8-3 scores.

In singles play, Tech junior Anna Carson (Fort Smith, Ark.) collected a win at No. 2 singles in a tiebreaker and Tech junior Kristen Brown (Winona, Texas) won in straight sets at No. 5 singles to help prevent Harding from sweeping the match. In addition to Carson’s tiebreaker at No. 2 singles, freshman Michelle Yu (Flower Mound, Texas) lost in a tiebreaker to Harding’s Katherine Golik.

The Golden Suns will return to action on Thursday, April 3, when they travel to Clarksville, Ark., to face the University of Ozarks in a 2 p.m. match.

Results

Harding 7, Arkansas Tech 2

Singles

No 1. – Alicia Williams (HU) def. Saki Matsuoka (Tech), 6-0; 6-3

No. 2 – Anna Carson (Tech) def. Karina Gommes (HU), 4-6; 6-4; 10-2

No. 3 – Lola Pardo (HU) def. Puja Paul (Tech), 6-1; 6-1

No. 4 – Katherine Golik (HU) def. Michelle Yu (Tech), 6-1, 6-7 (5); 10-7

No. 5 – Kristen Brown (Tech) def. Haniel Gara (HU), 6-3; 6-1

No. 6 – Katy Turnbow (HU) def. Whitney Simmons (Tech), 6-3; 6-2

Doubles

No. 1 – Williams/Gomes (HU) def. Carson/Matsuoka (Tech), 8-3

No. 2 – Pardo/Golik (HU) def. Paul/Yu (Tech), 8-3

No. 3 – Simmons/Brown (Tech) def. Turnbow/Gara (HU), 8-4

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