Women's Tennis | 4/5/2018 9:36:00 PM

    WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. – The regionally-ranked West Liberty University women's tennis team dropped a hard-fought 5-4 decision to Edinboro here Thursday afternoon in non-conference action at the Edgar Martin Tennis Complex.
    Coach Heather Gallagher's Hilltoppers (12-6), who checked in at No. 6 in this week's NCAA Division II Atlantic Region rankings, took two of the three doubles matches to take a 2-1 lead over the Fighting Scots (7-8) heading into singles play.
    Lisa Nachtwey rolled to a 6-0 6-0 win at No. 6 singles for West Liberty and a straight-set win by Thais Mendez at No. 1 singles left the hosts just one win away from sealing the match.
    Edinboro closed the gap to 4-2 with a straight-set win at No. 2 singles and followed that up with straight-set wins at No. 3 and No. 4 singles to forge a 4-4 tie.
    The Fighting Scots' Marija Tmusic took the first set of her No. 5 singles match against WLU's Alaina Pauley but Pauley squared the match with a 6-4 nod in the second set only to see Tmusic pull out a 6-3 win in the third set to close things out.
    The Lady Hilltoppers will be idle until April 17 when they hit the road for a non-conference match at Ashland.
  Thais Mendez (WLU) d. Laura Lopez, 6-4 6-3
Tatiana Batalla (Edin) d. Laura Huwe, 6-2 6-4
Roxana Yeh (Edin) d. Ana Berbel, 7-6 (5) 6-3
Jelena Vucenovic (Edin) d. Kate Pinchuk, 7-6 (1) 6-3
Marija Tmusic (Edin) d. Alaina Pauley, 6-3 4-6 6-3
Lisa Nachtwey (WLU) d. Payton Tomasko, 6-0 6-0 Huwe/Mendez (WLU) d. Batalla/Lopez, 8-3
Pauley/Berbel (WLU) d. Tmusic/Yeh, 8-3
Vucenovic/Tomasko (Edin) d. Pinchuk/Makayla Schaefer, 8-6