{"id":465242,"date":"2026-10-14T00:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/465242\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T00:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:20:08","slug":"tarleton-state-completes-play-at-ita-texas-regional-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/465242\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton State completes play at ITA Texas Regional Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     WACO, Texas &#8211; Tarleton State Tennis completed its fourth tournament of the fall season at the ITA Texas Regional Championship this past weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Texans had four players compete in the singles qualifying draw. Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/tarletonsports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/nuria-lafitte-valls\/12670\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12670\" target=\"_blank\">Nuria Lafitte-Valls<\/a> defeated Texas State&#8217;s Kinley VanPelt 6-4, 6-3 to advance to the second round, where she fell to SMU&#8217;s Allie Bittner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/tarletonsports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/anna-huisgen\/12668\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12668\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Huisgen<\/a> was the lone Texan to play in the Singles Main Draw, where she pushed UTRGV&#8217;s Rhea Makesar to three sets before losing 4-6, 7-5, 6-4. Sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/tarletonsports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/marissa-minetti\/12111\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12111\" target=\"_blank\">Marissa Minetti<\/a> secured a victory in a consolation game against SMU&#8217;s Natalie Stansy, winning 6-4, 6-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the doubles side, Tarleton State had two teams compete in the main draw. Freshman duo <a href=\"https:\/\/tarletonsports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/erika-abraham-nilsen\/12669\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12669\" target=\"_blank\">Erika Abraham-Nilsen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tarletonsports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/aruzhan-nuranbay\/12671\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12671\" target=\"_blank\">Aruzhan Nuranbay<\/a> were defeated by SFA&#8217;s Avery Kinsey and Juliane Koschinsk 8-5. Anna Huigsen and Nuria Lafitte Valls picked up an 8-5 win against UTSA&#8217;s Giulliana Giardina and Laia Tarazona Peyro to advance to the round of 32. Their tournament run was cut short as they lost to the eventual champions, TCU&#8217;s Sofiia Mykhailets and Cristina Ramos Sierra 8-4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton State will travel to Clarksville, Tennessee next week to compete in the first-ever UAC Fall Individual Championship.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; WACO, Texas &#8211; Tarleton State Tennis completed its fourth tournament of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-465242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}