FHSU Sports Information Department<\/p>\n
Fort Hays State Women’s Tennis picked up a pair of wins on Friday (Sept. 25) in Nebraska. The Tigers defeated Doane College 5-4, then Concordia University 7-2 to wrap up the fall portion of their 2015-16 schedule. FHSU finished 4-3 overall in the fall.<\/p>\n
Fort Hays State 5, Doane College 4<\/strong><\/p>\n Alina Villalovos held the key to Fort Hays State’s one point win at Doane. She won a competitive match at No. 3 singles by scores of 7-5 and 6-4 to break a 4-4 tie between the teams.<\/p>\n FHSU went up 2-1 after doubles play. The No. 1 team of Laura Jimenez-Lendinez and Jessica Johnson blanked their opponent 8-0 and the No. 3 team of Haley Weidemann and Taylor Noel won 8-1. The No. 2 team of Villalovos and Raven Dick fell 8-3.<\/p>\n The Tigers took a 4-1 lead as Jimenez-Lendinez (No. 1) and Weidemann (No. 5) each won their singles matches, but Doane stormed back with wins at the No. 2, No. 4, and No. 6 positions in straight sets, putting the focus on the No. 3 match. Johnson had a competitive match at No. 2, falling by scores of 7-5, 7-5.<\/p>\n Fort Hays State 7, Concordia (Neb.) 2<\/strong><\/p>\n Fort Hays State defeated Concordia by sweeping doubles play and clinched the match early in singles play to secure its winning record in the fall.<\/p>\n In doubles, the No. 1 team of Jimenez-Lendinez and Johnson won 8-1, while the No. 3 team of Weidemann and Noel won 8-2. The No. 2 team of Villalovos and Dick had a more competitive match, but won 8-5.<\/p>\n All singles matches were contested in straight sets. Jimenez-Lendinez (No. 1), Villalovos (No. 3), Weidemann (No. 5), and Noel (No. 6) all claimed wins. All four posted a shutout in at least one of their sets. Weidemann completely blanked her opponent, 6-0, 6-0. Johnson (No. 2), and Dick (No. 4) dropped their contests.<\/p>\n The Tigers return to action in the spring on March 2 at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, Kan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FHSU Sports Information Department Fort Hays State Women’s Tennis picked up a pair of wins on Friday (Sept. 25) in Nebraska. The Tigers defeated Doane… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7349,3406],"tags":[6818,7994,7268,2253,106,7993,2629,2712,7814,4624,7813],"class_list":["post-22512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-tennis","tag-roartigers","tag-alina-villalovos","tag-doane-college","tag-fhsu-tennis","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-haley-weidemann","tag-jessica-johnson","tag-kansas-wesleyan","tag-laura-jimenez-lendinez","tag-raven-dick","tag-taylor-noel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22515,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22512\/revisions\/22515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}