Northwest Missouri State University senior women's tennis player Polina Gontaryk dropped a straight-sets 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 decision to Lubbock Christian's Andrea De Bernardo on day three of the ITA Division II Singles Championships in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

The No. 8 seeded Gontaryk forced a first-set tiebreaker with De Bernardo. However, the Lubbock Christian player came back from a 2-1 deficit to score a 7-3 victory. Gontaryk led 2-1 in the second set, but De Bernardo won the final five games to take the second set, 6-2.

Gontaryk has wrapped up her fall play with a 9-3 mark in singles action.

Gontaryk's Singles Results at ITA Nationals
L, 6-4, 7-5 vs. Olesya Stokusova (North Georgia)
W, 6-0, 6-1 vs. Fabienne Lahn (Chestnut Hill)
L, 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 vs. Andrea De Bernardo (Lubbock Christian)