Women's Tennis | 9/22/2019 2:27:00 PM

Box Score FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.  Singles action on Sunday closed out the three-day Methodist University Women's Fall Invite, with several Monarchs participating in late rounds of the seven flights of singles at the Gene Clayton Tennis Center.

Playing in a championship match for Methodist was Allyson Hays, who played to numerous deuce points with her opponent but fell, 6-3 and 6-0, to Averett University's Rainey Townsend in the winner's bracket of Singles Flight #7.

In that same bracket it was freshman Sydney Bird with a win in the fifth-place match, downing Meredith College's Sarah Porter, 6-0, 6-0.

Reaching third-place matches for the Monarchs were:

• Jill Lawrence in Flight #1 (lost 2 and 1)
• Jessica Tucker in Flight #2 (lost 2 and 1)
• Megan Kidd in Flight #3 (lost 2 and 0)
• Jillian Garrett in Flight #4 (won 6-2, 4-6, 1-0(3))
• Kamdyn Balko in Flight #6 (won 1 and 0)

On the consolation side of brackets:

• Allison Himes won in three sets, 1-6, 6-3, 1-0 (8), to capture seventh place in Flight #1
• Abby Caddick dropped a 3 and 0 decision in the fifth-place match in Flight #2
• Natalie Collins went three sets in winning the seventh-place match of Flight #4, 7-6 (4), 3-6, 1-0 (6)
• Luciana Forma was felled, 1 and 2, in Flight #5's fifth-place match

NEXT UP
The Monarchs will participate in the Belmont Abbey (University) Tournament on October 3-4.