BENTONVILLE, Ark. – If there was any doubt that Southern Arkansas Women's Tennis player
Joanna Nowakowska was deserving of a unanimous All-Great American Conference First-Team selection, it was erased on Friday afternoon as the junior rallied from an opening set defeat to Arkansas Tech's Katharina Drebka to win 6-1 and 6-2 in the final two sets to clinch the match 4-3 over the Golden Suns.
SAU will face Harding at 2 p.m. for the GAC Tournament Championship and the automatic bid to the NCAA Division II Championships. A manual-refresh championship stat page is available here:
https://greatamericanconference.com/sports/2016/4/19/GAC-TENNIS-SCOREBOARD.aspx.
After winning the doubles competition and claiming a line two win in singles action, Arkansas Tech led 2-0, before All-GAC First-Team performer
Simone Simas won at line four to put the Lady Muleriders on the board. GAC Freshman of the Year and first-team performer
Angela Vargas won at line three and second-team standout
Lena Milosevic claimed a line five victory as SAU took a 3-2 lead. Freshman
Serena Gill was narrowly edged at line six which set the stage for Nowakowska who rallied after a 6-3 loss in set one.
#1 Southern Arkansas (4) vs #4 Arkansas Tech (3)
| No. 1 Singles |
Set #1 |
Set #2 |
Set #3 |
| Joanna Nowakowska (SAU) |
3 |
6 |
6 |
| Katharina Drebka (ATU) |
6 |
1 |
2 |
| No. 2 Singles |
Set #1 |
Set #2 |
Set #3 |
| Aurora Novati (SAU) |
2 |
1 |
- |
| Teresa Sanchez (ATU) |
6 |
6 |
- |
| No. 3 Singles |
Set #1 |
Set #2 |
Set #3 |
| Angela Vargas (SAU) |
6 |
6 |
- |
| Kami Ward (ATU) |
3 |
3 |
- |
| No. 4 Singles |
Set #1 |
Set #2 |
Set #3 |
| Simone Simas (SAU) |
6 |
6 |
- |
| Daniela Baez (ATU) |
1 |
1 |
- |
| No. 5 Singles |
Set #1 |
Set #2 |
Set #3 |
| Lena Milosevic (SAU) |
7 |
6 |
- |
| Annabel Rowlands (ATU) |
6 |
3 |
- |
| No. 6 Singles |
Set #1 |
Set #2 |
Set #3 |
| Serena Gill (SAU) |
6 |
6 |
- |
| Megan Bell (ATU) |
7 |
7 |
- |
Doubles order of finish: 2-3-1; Singles order of finish: 2-4-3-5-6-1
