The women’s ten­nis team won two matches after a first-round defeat

The women’s ten­nis team won two of three matches over the week­end at the GLIAC Tournament.

The sixth seeded Bulldogs began the week­end with a loss to third seeded Michigan Tech early Saturday, 5–2.

The Huskies were able to jump on Ferris early in dou­bles as they won two of three matches. Michigan Tech also had the edge in the sin­gles com­pe­ti­tion as they won three of the first four games.

The only Bulldog vic­to­ries came from a dou­bles win from the pair­ing of senior Daniela Dimas and sopho­more Mellissa Flowers, along with a sin­gles vic­tory by sopho­more Natalie Diorio.

After the loss, Ferris had a chance to respond in the con­so­la­tion match against the Lake Superior State Lakers. Junior cap­tain Amy Ingle knew the team would be ready to bounce back going into the sec­ond match.

“It was def­i­nitely a rough loss dur­ing the first round,” said Ingle. “But com­ing back from a tough loss is a key in com­pet­i­tive play.”

The Bulldogs responded by beat­ing the Lakers, 5–3. The team was able to take con­trol early as it won two of the three dou­bles slots. The Bulldogs car­ried the momen­tum into sin­gles com­pe­ti­tion, where they held on to a 3–2 lead.

After split­ting the first two matches of the tour­na­ment, Ferris went into the fifth place match against fifth-seeded Ashland University with a high level of confidence.

“After win­ning the two dou­bles matches against Lake Superior State, we were really fired up,” said Ingle. “We just took our aggres­sion out on the next two teams after the loss to Tech.”

Ferris har­nessed that aggres­sion against Ashland, as they tal­lied a 5–2 vic­tory. The vic­tory gave the Bulldogs a fifth place fin­ish at the tour­na­ment for the weekend.

“I feel the whole team played well this week­end,” said Ingle. “Even some of our losses in sin­gles and dou­bles this week­end were bat­tles that showed what our team is capa­ble of.”

Following their tour­na­ment per­for­mance, the Bulldogs will not be back in action until the spring sea­son. Ferris will begin the spring sched­ule with a trip to Calvin College on March 2.