MARYVILLE, Mo. – The Northwest Missouri State University women's tennis team continued its sizzling play with a 7-0 dual win over the Drury Panthers Sunday at the Rosewell Tennis Center.
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The Bearcats won their 11th straight dual and moved to 12-1 on the season. Drury fell to 6-4 overall. The 11 straight wins ties for the fifth-longest win streak in program history.
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Bearcat Women's Tennis Longest Winning Streaks
1. 3/7/97-5/8/97 - 24
2. 3/3/06-4/14/06 - 17
3. 3/26/10-4/24/10 - 12
  3/8/23-4/14/23 - 12
5. 3/18/03-4/4/03 - 11
   2/13/26-3/29/26 - 11
7. 2/4/24-3/11/24 - 10
  4/2/08-4/26/08 - 10
  3/1/08-3/27/08 - 10
  3/12/99-3/30/99 - 10
  3/30/88-4/15/88 - 10
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Northwest won two of the three doubles' matches to take a 1-0 lead. Northwest got wins from its No. 2 (
Majra Djokic and
Polina Gontaryk) and No. 3 (
Chiharu Ito and
Miru Nonaka) teams.
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The Bearcats breezed in singles' play with six straight-sets triumphs – highlighted by a 6-0, 6-0 win from
Laura Prieto Sieiro over Drury's Ina Bechle at No. 4 singles.