The women’s tennis team took home two more conference wins from Friday’s match against Belmont and Saturday’s matchup with Tennessee State.

The wins put the Panthers at 11-5 overall and 5-1 in the Ohio Valley Conference.

Eastern swept the Belmont Bruins 7-0 on the Darling Courts at home. The Panthers’ win put the Bruins at 2-11 overall and 0-4 in the conference.

The tennis team took an early lead, opening the match by earning the opening doubles point. The Panthers went on to snatch the remaining doubles contests.

Senior Ali Foster and junior Kelly Iden trumped the Bruins’ Abbie Mather and Laura Van Eeckhoudt 6-3 in the No. 2 contest.

Freshman Srishti Slaria and junior Kamile Stadalninkaite added a ninth win to their doubles record with a victory over Mical Johnson and Suzanna Stapler, 6-2.

Senior Hannah Kimbrough and sophomore Grace Summers earned the win in their unfinished match against Lindsey Whitehead and Kendall Warren.

Summers said the match went unfinished because the team was able to clench their doubles matches. Clenching the matches means as soon as two of the three doubles matches are won, the third competition stops. Because Foster and Iden and Slaria and Stadalninkaite won their contests, Kimbrough and Summers’ matchup ended.

Summers explained that this is done in order for the matches to not last as long.

The Panthers rolled through their singles matches with only one going into three sets.

Iden defeated Van Eeckhoudt at the No. 1 spot 6-3, 6-2, starting the Panthers domination of the remaining five matches.

Foster beat Warren in their No. 2 matchup, winning 6-4, 6-3.

Summers competed at the No. 3 position and rolled past Stapler with her 6-0, 6-1 win. The win puts Summers at 13-1 in singles.

In the No. 4 match, Kimbrough trumped Belmont’s Maddie Gilley 6-4, 6-1.

Slaria earned the victory over Mather with a pair of 6-4 wins.

Freshman Abby Carpenter’s No. 6 match against Johnson went to three sets. Carpenter pulled out the win 2-6, 6-2, 10-4 to round out the singles wins.

The Panthers posted another sweep over the weekend, beating Tennessee State 4-0.

Eastern’s doubles duo had a total takeover of the doubles matches.

Kimbrough and Summers rolled through their matchup against Abhilasha Vishwanath and Pragati Natraj. The Panther pair took home a 6-1 win.

Foster and Iden also posted a 6-1 victory over Phoenix Gandy and Taylor Patterson.Slaria and Stadalninkaite’s match defaulted to an unfinished result to round out the Panther wins.

The doubles teams are now a combined 28-8 and 9-1 in the OVC.

In singles, Kimbrough, Slaria and Carpenter’s matches went unfinished because the first three matches saw wins for Eastern.Iden defeated Ani Popiashvili 6-3, 6-1, and Foster toppled Natraj 6-2, 6-1.

Summers breezed past Gandy 6-0, 6-1.

Summers was awarded Co-OVC Female Athlete of the Week last week for her second consecutive conference honor.

Mia Frogner of Southern Illinois-Carbondale was the co-recipient.

The sophomore earned the honor after another perfect performance in singles and doubles, this time against Murray State and Austin Peay.

Summers’ Mar. 25 matchup against Murray State’s Haily Morgan went to three hard fought sets with Summers pulling out the 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 win. Her match with Austin Peay’s Helena Kupig went more smoothly as Summers won 6-4, 6-0.

Summers and Kimbrough downed their opponents last weekend with a pair of 6-4 wins in doubles.The duo leads the team with a 12-3 record.

Other players nominated for the honor were Corentine Bodin of Eastern Kentucky, Genevie Ulanday of Jacksonville State, Ayaka Terashia of Morehead State and Phyllicia Hemphill of Tennessee State.

The Panthers’ next contest will be a home match against the visiting Southern Illinois- Edwardsville Cougars on Wednesday April 6 at 1 p.m.

Kaitlin Cordes can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].