SSU Mounts Comeback Against Earlham

The bears traveled to Richmond Indiana to face Earlham College. Play began with doubles and the Bear's third doubles team of Foose and Carpenter quickly downed Farst and Tafolla-Valencia of EC 8-3. SSU dropped the 1st doubles (Urban and Urban) and 2nd doubles (Ilea and Harman), each pair falling 8-7 in a tiebreaker. Earlham kept the ball rolling with first and second singles defeating the Bears. Lacey Urban fell at the one singles position to Maddie Cherry 6-0 6-1. Teegan Carpenter suffered a similar fate at two singles, falling 6-0 6-0 to Eric Dugan of EC. Despite this, the Bears battled back, winning the remainder of the matches; third, fourth, fifth, and sixth single (Antonia ilea, Lexy Urban, Brooklyn Foose, and McKenzie Harman) in dominant fashion clinching the match 5-4.

The Bear's women's team will take on Capital University next Thursday, September 28th at home at 3 PM.