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PORTLAND, Ore. – The Portland State women’s tennis team travels to California this weekend for a must-win regular-season finale at first-place Sacramento State on Saturday, April 18 (12:30 p.m.).

The Vikings (7-7, 3-4 BSC) need a top-six finish in the Big Sky standings to advance to the conference tournament (April 23-25). They enter the final weekend tied for sixth with Montana State at three wins each, but the Bobcats hold the tiebreaker. The Vikings need a win Saturday—and help from an Idaho or Montana State loss—to secure a postseason spot.

PSU is coming off a 1-1 weekend on the road, opening with a 4-3 win over Weber State on Friday, before a 5-2 loss to Idaho State on Sunday. The win over the Wildcats marked the program’s first-ever road victory in the series, with the Vikings taking the doubles point and adding singles wins from Scarlett Perkins (No. 1), Kasumi Hirayama (No. 5) and Hana Abdelhamid, who clinched at No. 4.

Marta Giglio leads the Vikings with double-digit wins in singles (10-4) and doubles (10-3). Hirayama follows with nine singles wins and a 4-3 Big Sky mark, riding a three-match streak at No. 5. Giglio and Abdelhamid pace the Vikings in doubles at 8-2, including a 7-2 mark at No. 1. Hirayama and Nene Uemura enter the weekend playing well, winning two of their last three matches at line two.

Portland State has defeated Sacramento State just three times in program history, with all three wins coming at home over the last decade. The Hornets have swept the Vikings each of the past two seasons.

Picked first in the 2026 preseason coaches’ poll, Sacramento State has lived up to the expectation, already clinching at least a share of the regular-season title and spending eight weeks in the ITA rankings, reaching as high as No. 50 on February 24.

The Hornets will travel to UC Davis on Thursday before welcoming the Vikings on Saturday. 
 

Portland State (7-7, 3-4 BSC) at Sac State (15-5, 6-1 BSC)
Saturday, April 18  (12:30 p.m.)
Sacramento, Calif.– Sac State Tennis Complex
All-time vs. Sac State: Portland State trails series, 3-21