Lake Forest 4, Carthage 3
RACINE – The Carthage women's tennis team hosted the Lake Forest Foresters on Sunday evening at the LifeSport Tennis Club. After coming up short in a hard-fought round of doubles play, the Firebirds were unable to bounce back and dropped the match to the Foresters.

 

In doubles play, Sasha Manojlovic and Niki Manojlovic dropped a 6-2 match in #1 doubles to Sophia Strupovets and Liiliam Dockal. Xingchen Liu and Maddie Kearney defeated Margaret Bugnacki and Sara Lopez 6-3 in #2 doubles to draw even at 1-1. Giovanna Mendes and Greta Peterson fell in a tight 7-6 (7-5) match in #3 doubles to Kate Feist and Anika Kinnear. The Foresters outscored the Firebirds 2-1 in doubles play to take a 1-0 lead on the overall scoreboard.

In singles play, S. Manojlovic suffered a 6-1, 6-0 loss to Dockal in #2 singles. Peterson dropped the #3 singles match with a pair of 6-1 losses to Bugnacki. Now down 3-0, the Firebirds found themselves in a situation where the team needed to claim the last four singles points to win the match. Kearney got the comeback attempt started with a 6-0, 6-1 victory over feist in #5 singles to cut the deficit to 3-1. After going ahead early in #1 singles, Liu fell to Strupovets 2-6, 6-1, (10-5). The Foresters pulled ahead 4-1 and secured the victory. Mendes went on to defeat Lopez 5-7, 6-3, (13-11) in #4 singles, before N. Manojlovic earned the #6 singles win over Kinnear 7-6 (7-2), 3-6, (10-5). The Forester won the match 4-3.


 
The Firebirds (8-6) return to action on Sunday, April 6 as Carthage hosts Wis-Eau Claire and Illinois Tech at LifeSport Tennis Club at 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. respectively. For more information, visit athletics.carthage.edu.