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WINONA, Minn. – The Minnesota State University Moorhead women's tennis team clinched a berth in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference tournament with a 7-2 win over Winona State in action Friday night in Winona, Minn.

MSUM improved to 8-6 overall and 7-3 in the NSIC with the win, while Winona State fell to 2-10 overall and 2-7 in the NSIC.

The Dragons swept all three doubles matches and won four of six singles matches. Both of their singles losses came in a third-set super tiebreaker.
 "I'm very pleased with this result," MSUM head coach Oliver Summers said. "Our team very rarely gives the opposition any free points and even in our two losses today it showed that. We'll have a tough match on Saturday as we're not quite injury-free but for now we'll enjoy this victory."

At No. 1 doubles, MSUM's tandem of junior Jessamy Jones and senior Ashley Wood won a 9-8 nailbiter (7-4 tiebreaker) over Winona State's Justine Daane and Rachel Gantz.  The Dragons had an easier time at No. 2 doubles, as junior Maria Moral Carretero and sophomore Jade Goodyear-Anderson beat Hattie Scott and Katie Scruggs by an 8-1 score. Senior Morgan Smith and sophomore Ricquel Ramsbottom completed the sweep for MSUM with  an 8-3 win over the Warrior tandem of Melissa Boehmke and Keara Thiele.

Goodyear-Anderson won a marathon match at No. 2 singles for SMSUM, beating Gantz, 7-6 (7-4), 5-7, 16-14. Smith and Wood rolled to straight set wins at No. 3 and No. 4 singles, respectively. Smith beat Scott 6-1, 6-0 while Wood beat Thiele 6-1, 6-0. Ramsbottom also won in straight sets, prevailing 6-3, 6-3 over Scruggs at the No. 5 slot.

Jones lost a three-set contest to Daane at the No. 1 singles position while sophomore Jamie Freden fell in three sets to Lauren Wilkom of Winona State at No. 6.

MSUM will face Upper Iowa at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday in Winona.