Women’s Tennis Picks Up 6-1 Win Over Omaha

U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. – Air Force Women's Tennis took down Omaha, 6-1 on Saturday morning in Cadet East Gym, getting back on track and snapping a five-match skid.

Air Force opened the morning taking its seventh doubles point of the season while improving to 5-0 at home in doubles play as a team. The Falcons clinched doubles off wins on lines two (Arianna Van Houweling/Shivaani Selvan vs. Paula Arcarons/Zoe Adkins) and one (Alexis Odom/Maya Michalski vs. Katelyn Kock/Nina Weise) in order. Selvan/Van Houweling, competing together for just the second time this season, earned a 6-2 victory, winning four-straight games on the way to a commanding finish and improve to 2-0; Odom/Michalski took a 3-0 lead before giving up a game and then won three-straight to secure a 6-1 set win and clinch doubles for the Falcons.

On court three, sophomore Nadia Kojonroj and Sofia Mavor took four consecutive games to gain a 5-1 lead and threaten a win, but the match was abandoned due to the Falcons' clinch.

In singles, Air Force clinched the match earning wins on lines two (Kojonroj vs. Arcarons), one (Odom vs. Adkins) and three (Van Houweling vs. Khayli Buckels) in order; Kojonroj picked up four-straight game wins on the way to a 6-2 win in her opening set against Arcarons, then secured a straight-set victory with a 7-5 win in the second, improving to a team-best 7-2 in dual singles play. Odom, down 3-1 in her first set with Adkins, took five-straight wins to claim a 6-3 start, followed by a 7-5 closeout to earn her fifth singles win of the season. Van Houweling took the first set on a 5-3 deuce point then fell 6-4 in the second before shutting out Buckels 6-0 in the third set, clinching the match for Air Force.

Air Force and Omaha played on; on court four, freshman Maya Michalski fell in a three-set, 6-7, 6-2, 3-6 battle with Nina Weise, earning Omaha its lone point of the day. The Falcons closed the day with freshmen Sofia Mavor and Shivaani Selvan notching two set wins, improving to 7-3 and 6-3, respectively. Mavor, facing Omaha's Katelynn Kock, won a 7-3 tiebreak in the opening set, then closed on a 6-4 second set to earn back-to-back singles victories; Selvan split a pair of 6-2 sets against Maverick Summer Shannon, before escaping with a 13-11 win in a super tiebreak to secure the Falcons' sixth point of the day.

Looking Ahead:
Air Force Women's Tennis concludes non-conference play on Sunday, March 9, hosting St. Thomas in East Gym at 9 a.m. The Falcons open Mountain West play on the road, taking on San Diego State (March 14) and UNLV (March 16), before hosting Utah State back in East Gym on March 23.

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Players Mentioned

Nadia Kojonroj

Sofia Mavor

Maya Michalski

Alexis Odom

Shivaani Selvan

Arianna Van Houweling

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