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Box Score 2 The Lake Forest College women's tennis team posted back-to-back 7-0 victories at Illinois College and Monmouth College on Saturday.
They were the final matches of the fall semester for the Foresters, who are now 6-2 overall and finished second in the Midwest Conference standings at 6-1 in league play.
Four different members of the team were 4-0 on the day, including the top two players in
Sofia Strupovets and
Lilli Dockal. Strupovets climbed into a tie for seventh place in program history with 130 career victories and Dockal entered the top 10 with 96. Strupovets will enter the final semester of her career with 55 wins at #1 singles, just five shy of the school record set by Julie Lord in 2021.
Avelynn Wen and
Kate Feist also prevailed four times on Saturday. They combined for a victory at #3 doubles and added triumphs at #5 and #6 singles, respectively, at Illinois College. Later in the day Wen won with Any Mookencherry at #2 doubles and Feist with
Anika Kinnear at #3. Both players were also victorious in singles, despite moving up a spot in the lineup from the morning.
Mookencherry came out on top at #3 singles in both matches,
Bebe Phramthong prevailed at #4 against the Lady Blues, and Kinnear defeated the Fighting Scots' #6 player in the afternoon.
The MWC Team Tournament will be played May 1-2 at league champion Grinnell College. Lake Forest will take on Cornell College, the #3 seed, in Saturday's second semifinal and the winners will face off the final on Sunday with a trip to the NCAA Division III Tournament at stake.