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ITA Singles Results | Singles Back Draw Results | ITA Doubles Results | Doubles Back Draw Results | Open Results
The College of Wooster women's tennis team competed in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Central Regional Tournament, hosted by Oberlin College, over the weekend.
Sophomore Joy Li headlined the outing with an impressive quarterfinal appearance in the tournament's singles back draw.
In Friday's opener, Li lost, 6-3, 6-0, to Case Western Reserve University's Mira Amin. Li went on to defeat her first-round back draw opponent from Otterbein University in straight sets, 7-5, 6-0, to advance to the quarterfinal against Kenyon College's Illana Blackwood, who defeated Li, 6-2, 6-1, en route to winning the consolation final.
Li was the only Fighting Scot to compete in the championship singles draw.
In the Oberlin Open, which ran concurrently with the ITA Regional, sophomore Shannon Sertz defeated her opening-round opponent, 7-6, 6-3 before falling in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2. Both of Sertz's opponents hailed from St. Mary's College.
Additionally, senior Morgan Wagers fell in a hard-fought three-set thriller to Allegheny College's Sarah Casey, winning the first set 7-6 before dropping the second by the same count. Wager went on to lose the third-set super tiebreaker, 10-5.
Switching to ITA doubles action, Sertz and first-year partner Laura Haley fell 8-3 to Ohio Northern University's Ashley Ochsenhirt and Lynn Kelly before defeating Hope College's Erin LaBarge and Mary DeVries, 8-3, in the consolation bracket. The duo lost 8-2 to Otterbein in the round of 32.
Similarly, Li and Wagers dropped their first doubles match, 8-1, to a duo from Washington University-St. Louis before taking down North Park University's Vilde Olvin and Juvel Vinluan, 8-6, in the back draw's opener. The Scot duo went on to lose 8-3 in the round of 16.
Up next, Wooster (0-0) travels to Columbus, Ohio for a doubleheader against Mount Vernon Nazarene University (2-9) and Capital University (0-3) on Saturday, Sept. 30 at the Columbus School for Girls.