USAFA, Colorado- The Idaho State women's tennis team completed their trip to the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado this weekend as they competed against other schools including: Air Force, Colorado State, Davidson, Denver, Montana State, New Mexico, South Dakota, Weber State, Wyoming for an individual draw in both singles and doubles play.
Idaho State's play was highlighted by freshman,
Millie Day, winning the Delta Flight singles draw championship.
Beginning with doubles play Idaho State had three pairs of doubles competing. The reigning champs,
Stefanya Shalakhova and
Asem Shoybek, would fall in their opening round match, 3-8, to Montana State's McCarty/Bachdraw.
The Bengal duo of
Millie Day and
Sydney Morris would fall in their opening round match 5-8 to Davidson's Patel/Calderwood, but would come back and win their second doubles match. Defeating the Colorado State duo of Weekes/Voeksunable, 8-6. In their final doubles match Morris and Day would lose to Kollock/Langford of Davison College, 4-8.
The final Bengals doubles team to compete was
Olivia Mikkelson and
Victoria Grymalska, who would earn a first-round victory over Rodehorst/Hooper, 8-3. The Bengal tandem would win their quarter-final match on Saturday, defeating Hammond/Roti of Davidson College, 8-4. In their semi-final match vs. Denver's Cinkova/Becirovik Mikkelson and Grymalska would finally fall, losing 5-8.
In singles play the Bengals had six players competing in five different draws.
In the Alpha bracket, we saw
Asem Shoybek lose her first-round matchup 4-6, 3-6, to S. Weekley of Colorado State and then retire for the rest of singles play.
In the Bravo bracket
Stefanya Shalakhova would fall in her first-round match 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, to South Dakota's G. Chadick, and then to Denver's Becirovic-Novak in a heartbreaker, 4-6, 6-2, 8-10. In her consolation bracket match Shalakhova would fall to E. Trencheva from Wyoming, 4-6, 7-5, 5-10.
Sydney Morris was in the Charlie bracket for Idaho State. Morris downed C. Calderwood from Davidson in first-round match, 6-4, 6-2, but fell in the second round to Colorado State's L. Voeks, 4-6, 3-6. In the consolation bracket Morris would win her first match vs. Davidson's I. Roti, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4, but then fall to Colorado State's M. Dobreva 6-3, 4-6, 7-10 in her second consolation match.
In the Delta bracket for ISU was
Millie Day and
Olivia Mikkelson. Mikkelson would drop her opening round match vs. Air Force's G. Sanchirico, 3-6, 5-7, and would fall to Utah State's C. Tapia-Cruz in her second singles match of the day, 7-5, 4-6, 14-16. In Mikkelson's first consolation match the Bengal would take care of Montana State's A. Cuquerella, 6-1, 6-3, but then fall to Wyoming's A. Kochelaevskaia, 0-6, 5-7.
Day would defeat N. Cinkova of Denver, 6-0, 2-6, 6-4, in her first-round win, and would follow that up with a dominant 6-1, 6-2 victory over C. Holguin from the Air Force Academy. In the Delta semi-final Day defeated Air Force's M. Michalski 7-5, 6-1 to advance to the Delta Championship match. In the final Day would go up against Air Force's G. Sanchirico. In the final Day would defeat Sanchirico with ease, 6-0, 6-2, to claim the Delta bracket crown.
In the Echo bracket was
Victoria Grymalska. Grymalska lost her opening match to Air Force's J. Limbago 1-6, 5-7, but would earn a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Davidson's K. Patel. In the consolation matches Grymalska fell to Utah State's N. Paterova, 6-3, 7-5, and to South Dakota's K. Curcic the second consolation match, 2-6, 1-6.
Head coach
Gretchen Maloney shared her thoughts on the team's second tournament this fall, "Overall, we had a very good weekend with many competitive matches. It was really good to play so many matches and be able to make adjustments every match.
Millie played so consistent and steady in every match and was really impressive to see a freshman with a that great of a match IQ.
We are looking forward to the Barb Chandler Classic at Boise State in a couple of weeks."
The Idaho State women's tennis team has their next tournament at Boise State on September 27
th through September 29
th before the ITA Mountain Regionals Oct. 17
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