WICHITA - Kansas Wesleyan Women's Tennis picked up a key conference win 5-2 over the Friends University Falcons on Saturday at Riverside Tennis Center.
In doubles, the Coyotes would win the doubles point winning two of the three matches. McKinnley Evans and Kristi Henderson beat Carlotta Klee and Silva Avakian 6-3; and Alivia Sherer and Eliza Camp beat Alana Ewertt and Victoria Hoffman 6-2. Friends would get one win as Aneth Diaz and Molly Bender beat Hayden Bellamy and Danielle Slack 6-3.
In singles, KWU won four of the six matches. Evans beat Ewertt 6-2, 6-2; Slack beat Bender 6-3, 7-5; Camp beat Hoffman 6-0, 6-2; and Ania Bonner won by default. Friends won two matches as Avakian beat Bellamy 6-3, 3-6, 10-8; and Diaz beat Sherer 6-1, 6-0.
The Coyotes are back in action on Monday taking on Sterling College in a Kansas Conference match-up at 3 p.m. at Salina Tennis Alliance Center.
The Men's Tennis team also got a crucial 4-3 win over the Friends University Falcons on Saturday at Riverside Tennis Center.
The victory locks in the Coyotes into the KCAC playoffs which begin in two weeks.
Friends had an early lead in the match winning the doubles point taking two of the three matches. KWU got a win as Raul Davalos-Gavino and Gavin Chavez beat Auron Hoyer and Enric Garcia 6-2. Friends got wins as Cristobal Fuentez and Gabriel Gomez beat Adam Hanson and Luke Craft 6-3; and Augusto Silva Morais and Connor Fitzsimmons beat Paul Jittawait and Jacob Phelps 2-1.
In singles, it was the bottom four flights for the Coyotes that made the difference. Jacob Phelps beat Hoyer 6-0, 3-6, 6-4; Craft beat Garcia 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Jack Hanson beat Silva Morais 6-1, 6-4; and Chavez beat Fitzsimmons 6-3, 6-2. Friends got wins as Fuentez beat Davalos-Gavino 6-3, 3-6, 6-1; and Gomez beat Adam Hanson 6-4, 6-2.