ST. LOUIS – The 2023 regular season has come to an end for Missouri Baptist women's tennis. The Spartans finished the campaign 4-14 and achieved victories against Baker University and University of Health Sciences & Pharmacy (UHSP), as well as Southwestern Illinois in an exhibition match, in the latter half of the season.
 
MoBap managed to win all but one point from the Baker match that ended 6-1, scoring a doubles victory with 6-0 and 6-3 results from the No. 2 and No. 3 teams of Mia McIsaac/Nina Vasiljkovic and Genie Hong/Laura Baracaldo. The Spartans then saw the four triumph in singles play along with Mariana Azevedo, all in straight sets, to secure the biggest win of the season.
 
The UHSP matchup featured success from the doubles section of the tilt with the Eutectics for the opening point. McIsaac, Hong, Azevedo, and Baracaldo all capped it off with straight set conclusions for the 5-2 final score. Freshmen McIsaac and Azevedo continued their impressive debut campaigns, as McIsaac and Azevedo improved their records to 7-7 and 7-6 in singles play on the season, respectively.
 
Sandwiched in between those victories was an agonizingly close loss to Missouri Valley College, 4-3. The match saw the trio of Hong, McIsaac, and Azevedo defeat their singles opponents via some tight results. Vasiljkovic and senior Faith Griese were both defeated in two sets, fighting hard to take it to a third but coming one break in serve short all four sets.
 
Missouri Baptist must turn its attention to next Thursday, which marks the start of the NAIA Unaffiliated Tournament Championship made up of Heart of America, Sooner Athletic and American Midwest Conference schools. The tournament will take place at Dwight Davis Tennis Center in St. Louis and run from April 20th-22nd.