KWU Athletics
Kansas Wesleyan Women's Tennis dropped its season opener to Texas A&M-Texarkana 5-2 on Friday morning at Salina Central High School.
The Coyotes picked up a win at No. 3 singles as Michaela Crowe (SO/Overland Park, Kan.) beat Natalie Scott 6-3, 6-3. Kaitlyn Wrye (FR/Olathe, Kan.) also picked up a default win for the Coyotes at No. 6 singles as TAMUT did not have a full compliment of players.
Avery Soto (FR/Pueblo, Colo.) and Wrye also got a default win at No. 3 doubles.
Texarkana would win the doubles point as Marie Peters and Lydia Oviedo beat Karley Benson (SR/Salina, Kan.) and Zofia Selwesiuk (SR/Wroclaw, Poland) 6-1, and Scott and Kheidyvel Ibarra beat Crowe and Eliza Camp (FR/Winfield, Kan.) 6-3 at No. 2 doubles.
In singles, Peters beat Selweisuk 6-1, 6-1 at No. 1; Oviedo beat Benson 6-1, 6-1 at No. 2; Ibarra beat Camp in a three-set match 3-6, 6-1, 10-2; and Newton beat Soto 6-2, 6-1.