NASHVILLE – The Lipscomb University Women's Tennis team cruised to a 4-0 rout of Eastern Kentucky University to cap off Senior Day on Friday afternoon from the Huston-Marsh-Griffith Tennis Center.
Prior to first serve, the Bisons honored
Alina Cherniaieva and Soffia Paladi for senior day.
Final Score: Lipscomb 4, Eastern Kentucky 0
Location: Nashville, Tennessee (Huston-Marsh-Griffith Tennis Center)
Records: Lipscomb (13-6), Eastern Kentucky (10-13)
HOW IT HAPPENED
In doubles, despite a 6-2 win by
Mariia Dolzhenko and
Serafima Bobrovnikova (7-5) at the top flight, EKU also won a flight with a 6-2 score on court three.
However,
Sofiia Paladi and
Deborah Dominguez Collado (18-3), earned their ninth straight doubles win, and it came in a big way with a 6-4 dub on court two.
From there, the momentum stayed with the Bisons into singles, as they picked up the wins need to sweep the Colonels.
Dolzhenko (21-9) stormed past Masha Fedenko, 6-0, 6-0 to start the winning for Lipscomb.
Sofiia Zhylchuk (15-6) followed on court six, defeating Anastas Cherniakova, 6-0, 6-2.
On Senior Day, Paladi (16-11) was the one to clinch the match for the Bisons. Earning her 85th singles win of her career on Friday, she defeated Sasha Parkhomenko 6-2, 6-1, to secure the match.
HERD NOTES
Lipscomb earned its seventh straight win, finishing off a perfect home stand on Friday. The Bisons have matched the program's best win streak since 2005-06 with seven straight wins from the 2016 season.
UP NEXT
With the regular season in the books, Lipscomb has earned the two-seed in the upcoming Atlantic Sun Tournament next week in Fort Myers, Florida from the campus of Florida Gulf Coast University.
The Bisons will play the Colonels again in the quarterfinals on Thursday at 8 a.m. CDT.
