HILTON HEAD, S.C. - The Lewis University women's tennis team defeated West Liberty 4-0 Monday (March 7) in a nonconference match. The Flyers move to 5-3 on the year, while West Liberty falls to 2-1. 

Lewis won the doubles point after winning two of the three matches. Joie Reisch (La Grange Highlands, Ill./Lyons Township) and Anastasiya Salenko (Kyiv, Ukraine) defeated Gemma Cliffe and Evelina Martirosyan at No. 2 doubles 6-1 and Sage Hills (Bloomingdale, Ill./Glenbard North) and Grace Sueflohn (Delafield, Wis./KM Global Charter School) beat Nathalia Valencia and Jacqueline Pena-Aceves 6-2 at No. 3. The No. 1 team of Nefeli Zafeiri (Greece) and Casey Smith (Portage, Mich./Portage Central) fell to Emma Arnal and Daria Shchoma 6-4.

The Flyers won all three singles matches that finished to win the match. Smith won 7-5, 7-5 at No. 3 singles over Cliffe, Jovana Vujanic (Elk Grove Village, Ill./Elk Grove) beat Valencia 6-0, 7-5 and Reisch took down Pena-Aceves 6-4, 6-1. Salenko won her first set 6-3 and was tied 5-5 at No. 1 singles in the second set before her match ended, while Zafeiri was down 5-4 in the first set at No. 2 singles and Hills won 7-6 and was up 6-4 in the second set at No. 6 singles in her unfinished match.

Lewis returns to the courts Wednesday at 7:15 vs. Lake Superior State in Hilton Head.