OKLAHOMA CITY – Missouri Western (11-13, 2-7 MIAA) lost to top-seeded and No. 7 Washburn (22-2, 9-0 MIAA) in the first round of the MIAA Championships on Friday morning. The Ichabods won the quarterfinal matchup 4-0 and will advance to the next round.
 
Washburn took the doubles point with wins on the two and three courts, both by margins of 6-1. Joanna Abreu Roman and Karolina Ström were in the midst of a back-and-forth match when the Ichabods clinched the doubles point. The Griffons' top doubles pair ended their match in a 4-3 deficit before the match was ruled unfinished.
 
The Griffons fell in the first three completed matches on the number five, three, and two courts. Washburn had not lost a single set in the dual before clinching the 4-0 first-round win.
 
Federica Salmaso came the closest to taking a set from the Ichabods. Salmaso was edged in the first set by way of a 7-5 tiebreaker.
 
The 2018-19 season comes to a close for Missouri Western after its loss on Friday. Missouri Western will finish the season with the most wins in the program since the 2014-15 season when the team went 11-10. The Griffons had their most successful run this season in the early spring, kicking off the spring with a 7-3 start, including a stretch of six wins in seven matches.
 
 
MWSU VS. WU
SINGLES
Alexis Czapinski (WU) vs. Karolina Ström (MWSU) 6-4, 5-3, unfinished
Jacqueline Engelbrecht (WU) def. Joanna Abreu Roman (MWSU) 6-3, 6-0
Maria Soler Valverde (WU) def. Mireia Birosta (MWSU) 6-0, 6-0
Logan Morrissey (WU) vs. Federica Salmaso (MWSU) 7-5, 5-2, unfinished
Svea Crohn (WU) def. Bojana Vuksan (MWSU) 6-0, 6-0
Madison Lysaught (WU) vs. Erica Dunn (MWSU) 6-4, 5-0, unfinished
 
DOUBLES
Czapinski/Morrissey (WU) vs. Abreu Roman/Ström (MWSU) 4-3, unfinished
Crohn/Engelbrecht (WU) def. Birosta/Dunn (MWSU) 6-1
Fields/Soler Valverde (WU) def. Salmaso/Vuksan (MWSU) 6-1