LOCAL
• NSU drops first tennis match
The 16th-ranked NSU RiverHawks only managed to record two victories in a 7-2 loss to Abilene Christian at Collin County Community College on Saturday.
NSU’s No. 1 doubles team, Zuzanna Osinska and Emina Spirtovic, got the RiverHawks (ranked No. 3 in the South Central Region) on the board first with a 9-7 triumph over Jaclyn Walker and Dina Pavlin.
But the Wildcats, ranked seventh nationally and first in the region, answered with doubles victories at No. 2 and 3 doubles. ACU’s Cassie Carver and Julia Mongin posted an 8-3 victory over NSU’s Claire Chanay and Ivana Belejova in No. 2 doubles.
In No. 3 doubles, Lauren White and Hannah Kelley won 8-3 for the Wildcats over the RiverHawks’ Karolina Cichon and Michaela Romanova.
In singles play, it was all Wildcats. Abilene Christian won five of the six singles matches with NSU’s Romanova winning the lone singles match for the RiverHawks (6-1).
In No. 1 singles, ACU’s Walker beat Osinska, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3, before Mongin posted a 6-2, 4-6, 6-1, win over Spirtovic in 2 singles.
Romanova beat Carver in straight sets (6-2, 6-0) in No. 3 singles before the Wildcats won the final three singles matches.
In No. 4 singles, Pavlin dominated Belejova, 6-0, 6-0, in No. 5 singles, Cichon retired in the second set giving Kelley a 6-4 victory. And in No. 6 singles, ACU’s Natalie Friend beat Chanay, 6-1, 6-1.
With the victory, the Wildcats improved to 14-3.
Up next for the RiverHawks is the West Florida Classic in Pensacola, Fla.
STATE
• Tulsa receives NIT bid
TULSA (AP) — Tulsa has accepted a bid to play in the National Invitation Tournament for a second straight season and will face Kent State in the opening round.
The Golden Hurricane received a No. 5 seed and will play at Kent State on Wednesday night. With a win, Tulsa would advance to face either top-seeded Illinois or eighth-seeded Stony Brook.
The Golden Hurricane also played in the NIT last season, winning their first-round game against Northwestern before losing to Auburn in the second round.
This will be the 10th appearance in the NIT for Tulsa, which won the event in 2001. It will be the first ever meeting between Tulsa and Kent State.
• Kansas, K-State highlight teams at OKC site
The state of Kansas will invade Bricktown this weekend with Kansas and Kansas State being the two Big 12 representatives in NCAA Tournament Oklahoma City site on Friday and Sunday.
The Kansas Jayhawks, the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament out of the Midwest Region, will take on No. 16 seed Lehigh at approximately 8:40 p.m. on Thursday.
The 8-9 matchup in the Midwest pits No. 8 UNLV against No. 9 Northern Iowa at 6:10 p.m. on Friday.
No. 2 seed Kansas State, out of the West Region, will take on No. 15 North Texas in the first round at approximately 2 p.m. on Friday.
The final matchup will feature No. 7 BYU vs. No. 10 Florida. That game will tip off at 11:20 a.m. on Friday.
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