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October 1, 2001
Women’s Tennis Travel to ITA Championships
SIUE women’s tennis head into post season play with a 7-2 record. The Cougars travel to Indianapolis for the ITA Mid-American Championships this weekend. This tournament helps determine the regional rankings for the teams.
SIUE also will have to wait to find out who its first-round opponent will be for the GLVC Tournament in Indianapolis on Oct. 13-14. The Cougars are the No. 3 seed behind Northern Kentucky University and Southern Indiana. The fourth, fifth and sixth seeds will be determined by coin flip later this week between the University of Indianapolis, Lewis University and Quincy University. The University of Missouri-St. Louis and Bellarmine round out the GLVC Tournament field as the No. 7 and No. 8 seeds.
The Cougars are coming off a very hectic weekend. SIUE defeated Bellarmine 8-1 on Friday. On Saturday, the Cougars downed Indianapolis 5-4 in the morning and lost to Northern Kentucky 7-2 in the afternoon.
“Indianapolis was a very good team, and it was a tough match for us,” said Coach Bill Logan. Keli Keener (Bethalto) was able to pull off a very important victory when the match was tied 4-4, according to Logan.
Northern Kentucky has been the GLVC’s dominant team for the last four years. SIUE got off to an early 2-1 lead after winning two of the three doubles matches but could not hold NKU off. “I am happy because our doubles play still looks very good,” said Logan.
“Last week’s performance showed promise and was a good warm up,” said Logan. “Hopefully we will do as well this weekend.”
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