WICHITA FALLS, Texas -- Midwestern State celebrates Senior Day and hosts its final dual match before the Lone Star Conference Championships as Arkansas-Fort Smith visits MSU Tennis Center on Saturday afternoon.

The 40th-ranked Mustangs have won four of their last five duals and improved to 16-6 with a 7-2 conference record following a 4-3 victory over No. 9-ranked Cameron on Thursday afternoon. Midwestern State handed the Aggies their first loss in conference play and ended their 13-dual winning streak.
Midwestern State is 8-1 at home this season and has won its previous 13 encounters with Arkansas-Fort Smith, including a 6-1 victory over the Lions at MSU Tennis Center last season.

Alice Di Matteo, Ethne Dowling, Amelia Lawson and Emilija Visic are the four seniors that will be recognized during Senior Day ceremonies.

Lawson has been a stalwart at No. 1 singles this season. The fifth-year senior from New Zealand had a five-match winning streak snapped with a 6-7 (2), 2-6 loss to 26th-ranked Vasilisa Polunova of Cameron. Lawson is 12-9 overall in singles with a 5-3 conference record.

Di Matteo has reeled off three consecutive wins since taking over the No. 2 position for the Mustangs. Di Matteo is coming off a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Lea Manga of Cameron. The fifth-year senior from Palermo, Italy, is 10-8 in singles this season and has won five of her eight matches against conference opponents.

Hannah Yip has suffered three-set losses in each of her last two singles matches at the No. 3 position. Kateryna Rudenko scored a 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 victory for Cameron on Thursday. Yip is 7-12 in singles this season, including a 2-6 mark in the LSC.

Visic has won four of her last six matches, including a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Jenna Goessel of Cameron in the No. 4 position on Thursday. Visic is 8-1 at home this season and 11-9 in singles overall.

Skylar Minns clinched the dual-match victory against Cameron and improved to 13-2 in singles this season with a 6-3, 6-4 triumph in the No. 5 spot against Magda Wowrowska.

Micaela McSpadden has posted a 7-3 record in the No. 6 position for Midwestern State and is 4-1 at home after losing a match tiebreak to Karolina Glowinska of Cameron, 8-10.

The Mustangs are 38-24 in doubles as a team this season. Lawson and Sydney Williams are 13-6 in the No. 1 position. Minns and Visic have posted a 10-3 record at No. 3 doubles. Visic was paired with Di Matteo at No. 2 doubles against Cameron, and the duo prevailed, 6-3.

Arkansas-Fort Smith is 1-17 this season and 0-9 in the LSC. The Lions only victory this season came at University of the Ozarks on Feb. 18.