Box Score

RIVER FOREST, Ill. - For the second-consecutive season, Benedictine University's women's tennis team scored a 5-4 Northern Athletics Conference (NAC) win on Concordia University Chicago's home courts. The Eagles improved to 3-4 overall and 3-2 in the NAC with the stirring victory.

The teams began the grueling 4-hour plus match with doubles play.

Benedictine powered its way to two convincing wins at Nos. 1 and 2 doubles to set the tone for the day. Junior Ewelina Stachulak and senior Lisa Carrillo paired up for the first doubles tandem and scored an 8-4 win over the Cougars' Hana Mendoza and Allison Korenchan.  The win improved the duo's record to 4-3 in doubles play and 4-1 in the NAC.

At second doubles, Leigh Martino and Andrea Oliva steamrolled CUC's Colleen Mullaney and Lindsay Paluch, 8-0.

Concordia took third doubles and trailed by one heading into singles play.

Stachulak lost at first singles in straight sets (6-4, 6-4) and Carrillo lost a three-set match (7-5, 2-6, 6-0) at second singles. The Eagles' fortunes would turn in tha match dramatically by winning three of the next four flights.

Oliva won at the No. 4 position (6-1, 6-3) and Lina Savickas won at the No. 6 slot (6-0, 6-2).  But the match of the day belonged to Vivianna Iway at the No. 3 position.

Iway - facing Concordia's Korenchan - lost the first set 3-6 and battled back to take the second by an identical 6-3 score. Down 4-1 at one point in the third and deciding set, Iway began to wear down Korenchan and the match eventually went to a tiebreaker, which Iway won by a 7-4 margin to give Benedictine the match victory, as well.