The Morehead State women's tennis team opened its fall schedule with success this weekend at the Northern Kentucky Open. MSU won three singles flights, one doubles flight and claimed the back draw title in two other singles flights.
In singles action, sophomore Briar Preston only dropped four games in winning the No. 1 flight title. She opened with a 6-1, 6-1 triumph over Maria Voscekova of NKU and then dropped Laura Van Eckhoudt of Belmont, 6-1, 6-1. In the finals, she blanked SammiHornbarger of Dayton, 6-0, 6-0.
In flight two, redshirt freshman Andrea LeBlanc, who missed last season with a knee injury, was credited with the win. She topped Belmont's Sandra Kancheva, 6-2, 6-3 to open the event. LeBlanc fell 3-6, 6-2, 21-19 to Katie Boeckmann of Dayton but then responded with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Danielle Donohue of NKU.
Freshman Hayley Wild won all three of her singles matchups to claim the flight five championship. She beat Katie Shepherd of Dayton, 6-2, 6-0 before topping Xavier's Brooke Dennis, 6-4, 6-1. In the title match, Wild ousted Ann Lauren Fiepke of Belmont, 6-3, 6-1.
Freshman Kennedy Womack teamed with sophomore SandrineBeaule for the flight three doubles crown. The pair edged Caitlin Lawless and Megan Morris of Xavier, 8-7, in their first action. They disposed of Shepherd and Erin Filbrandt of Dayton, 8-1, to claim the title.
Beaule dropped her first singles match in flight six, but she rebounded for a pair of straight-set wins to earn the back draw title. Womack did the same in flight three. She fell in a three-set affair in the opening round but won a pair of straight-set decisions in the back draw.
Sophomore LissaPacheco-Brousseau also competed, dropping a pair of singles contests and a doubles match.
Morehead State returns to action Oct. 11-12 at the Skyhawk Invitational in Martin, Tenn.