The newly-minted Great Midwest Athletic Conference Championships-bound Ashland University men's and women's tennis teams finished the regular season with road wins against Kentucky Wesleyan on Sunday (April 21).
Ashland's women's 7-0 victory on Sunday gives them a 14-8 overall record and a 4-5 mark in the Great Midwest. Those 14 wins in a single season are the Eagle women's most since 2011-12 (18).
In the two doubles matches that weren't withdrawn, sophomore
Anna Corbel and junior
Kortney Reed won 6-1 at No. 1, and sophomores
Constanza Arancibia and
Ana Penteado won 6-2 at No. 2. AU's five non-withdrawn singles wins were earned by junior
Claudia Adcock at No. 1 (6-1, 6-0), Penteado at No. 2 (6-1, 6-1), Reed at No. 3 (6-1, 6-0), Arancibia at No. 4 (6-0, 6-0), and Corbel at No. 5 (6-2, 6-0).
The Eagle men took a 6-1 decision against the Panthers, and take marks of 13-5 overall and 3-5 in the conference into the league postseason. Those 13 wins are the AU men's most since the first season the team was reinstated in 2018-19 (13).
Ashland took two of three doubles matches for the opening points – sophomore
Rodrigo Moura Ludgero and junior
Fabian Bussard at No. 1 (6-3), and sophomore
Reid Opel and junior
Omar Prince at No. 3 (6-3). The Eagles' five singles Ws were from Ludgero at No. 1 (6-2, 6-0), Bussard at No. 3 (6-2, 6-2), sophomore
Gabriel Seminario at No. 4 (6-3, 7-6), freshman
Doug Cree at No. 5 (6-0, 6-1), and Opel at No. 6 (6-2, 6-2).
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