Four consecutive straight-sets wins on the singles court powered UIC past Northern Kentucky and into the Horizon League semifinals.
The Norse won the doubles point but were unable to overcome the Flames' firepower in singles action. The match points came at 6-0, 6-1, and 6-1 in three of UIC's four wins.Â
Lea Forste-Dinell won her 10
th straight match to provide the clinch in the 4-1 final.
UIC will take on Youngstown State in the semifinals on Saturday afternoon.
Doubles Results
Singles Results
- Arendt quickly got the Flames back even in the match. Up two games early in the first set, she maintained her margin from there, before pitching a shutout in the second set. Her 6-4, 6-0 win at #6 made her 3-0 in her career in Horizon League tournament play.
- Malazonia won the last four games of the first set on her way to an efficient, 6-1, 6-1 win at #2. It was her second straight win by that score.
- Jover had an easy win in the first set, but was challenged in the second at #3. The neck-and-neck set went to an extra game, where Jover ended things without going to a tiebreaker, 6-1, 7-5.
- Forste-Dinell was sharp in her Horizon League tournament debut. She won by a 6-2, 6-1 score on the #5 court to end the match and put UIC through to the semifinals.
- Agnes Gustafsson got off to a rocky start, but had righted the ship and was in the lead, 2-6, 6-3, 3-0 at #1 at the moment of the team's clinch.
- Hrabalova was involved in two dominating sets – one for each player – en route to just getting started in the third before being pulled off the #4 court. She was up 0-6, 6-1, 1-0 at that time.
Up Next
- The Flames will face #2 seed Youngstown State in the semifinals on Saturday.
- YSU beat an undermanned Flames squad, 5-2, in the teams' lone regular season meeting.
- Action will begin at 2 p.m. Central.
