Nishimura leads 5th ranked Barton women's tennis at Southwest JUCO #GoBarton

The Barton County Community College women's team competed this past weekend at the Southwest JUCO hosted by Collin College in Plano, Texas.

Natsuki Nishimura led the 5^th ranked Cougars' individual performances of the weekend, reaching the championship match of the No. 3 singles play.  Nishimura dropped just five games in her march to the title match by winning 6-1, 6-0 in her opening match before winning 6-0, 6-4 in her semifinal bout.

The Cougars came away with a pair of 3^rd placings from No. 2 Annunciata De-Souza and No. 6 Hailey Vinroe.  

Dropping their third place matches, No. 1 Alexandra Abyasova and No. 5 Malena Hernandez had to settle for 4^th while No. 4 Angelina Gnezdilova finished fifth.

In doubles action, two of the three tandems reached the title matches as the No. 1 pairing of De-Souza and Nishimura rolled to the finals behind 8-1 and 8-4 wins before falling 8-2 in the finals. The No. 2 duo of Abyasova and Hernandez earned a hard fought 9-8(1) semifinal bout but had to retire due to injury in the finals.  Gnezdilova and Vinroe dropped their No. 3 slot semifinal 8-6 in settling for third place.

Barton returns to conference action for its next meet, traveling to Liberal on Saturday for a 1:00 p.m. first serve against 6^th ranked Seward County Community College.