LAS VEGAS \u2014 The Grand Canyon women’s tennis team slipped into a three-way Mountain West tie for fifth place\u00a0after road losses at Nevada and conference co-leader UNLV this weekend.<\/p>\n
The Lopes (11-10, 4-4 Mountain West) started strongly Saturday at UNLV with a Court 1 victory from sophomore Bella Crossman<\/a> and junior Gala Arangio<\/a>, whose 6-2 victory improved their record to 4-2 as a pair. But the Rebels (14-3, 7-1) rallied for the doubles point by taking a pair of tight 6-4 matches on Courts 2 and 3.<\/p>\n UNLV kept the momentum into singles play, where Rebels star Veronika Kliuch defeated Crossman 6-1, 6-0, to improved to 23-2 on the season. Court 6 wrapped up quickly with a 6-1, 6-1 win for the Rebels’ Sofia Sokolvak that marked GCU sophomore Peyton Duckett’s<\/a> first loss since March 15.<\/p>\n Senior Dania Deaifi<\/a> kept GCU alive on Court 4, where she defeated Eszter Kis-Czako 6-3, 6-2 to cut the Rebels’ lead to 3-1. But UNLV’s dual match home victory was closed out on Court 3, where Arangio fell 6-3, 6-4 to Hudson Hawkins just as GCU sophomore Karina Hofbauer<\/a> was leading her match and Lopes freshman Am\u00e1lia Suciu\u00a0was game away from a Court 5 victory with a 6-3, 5-2 lead.<\/p>\n The Lopes have three conference dual matches remaining before returning to Las Vegas for Mountain West Championships on April 22-25. GCU will have its home finale at 10 a.m. Friday against Colorado State at GCU Tennis Facility.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 The Grand Canyon women’s tennis team slipped into a three-way Mountain West tie for fifth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-586273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}