LAWTON, Okla. -- Top-seeded Cameron eliminated No. 4-seed Midwestern State from the NCAA Division II Women's Tennis Championship with a 4-1 victory in their South Central Regional dual match at Streich-Henry Tennis Complex on Monday afternoon.

Sophomore Hannah Yip snapped a seven-match losing streak with a resounding 6-2, 6-1 victory over Lea Manga of Cameron at No. 3 singles to earn the only dual-match point of the day for Midwestern State. Yip improved to 8-14 for the season and was 2-4 in the No. 3 position for the No. 37- ranked Mustangs.

Cameron, ranked No. 11 in the nation, took a 1-0 lead by winning the doubles point. No. 25-ranked Valislisa Polunova and Anastasia Uspenskaia defeated No. 35-ranked Amelia Lawson and Sydney Williams, 6-3, at No. 1 doubles. Jenna Goessel and Magda Wawrowska won No. 3 doubles over Kanaha Furutani and Micaela McSpadden, 6-2.

Yip drew the Mustangs even with her triumph, but the Aggies claimed victory in the next three singles matches.

Polunova, ranked No. 23 in the nation, defeated Lawson at No. 1 singles, 6-2, 6-3. Polunova is the only player to beat Lawson since March 28. Lawson won seven of her last nine matches with both losses coming to the senior from Russia. 

Lawson transferred to MSU from Towson and finished the year with a 14-10 singles record, and the fifth-year senior from New Zealand played exclusively at No. 1 singles for the Mustangs. Lawson also played No. 1 doubles throughout the campaign — alongside Williams — and finished with a 15-7 mark in doubles.   

McSpadden and Wawrowska had some lengthy baseline rallies at No. 6 singles, but Wawrowska came out on top, 6-1, 6-2. McSpadden finished the year 10-6 for the Mustangs and won eight of her 12 matches in the No. 6 position this season.

Emilija Visic fell to Kateryna Rudenko at No. 4 singles, 4-6, 3-6, and the Aggies celebrated a berth in the NCAA Division II Nationals Round of 16 in Orlando, Florida, May 12-16.

Visic closed her final campaign as a Mustang with a 13-10 record in singles, and she was 13-5 in doubles this season.

For her career at Midwestern State, Visic was 48-22 in singles, and she boasted a 51-20 record in doubles over four seasons. The Phoenix native won 70 percent of her matches —singles and doubles combined — at Midwestern State.

Alice Di Matteo was in a hard-fought battle with 34th-ranked Uspenskaia, but the match at No. 2 singles was abandoned with the sophomore from Russia leading Di Matteo, 6-4, 3-4.

Di Matteo, a fifth-year senior, transferred to MSU from Fresno Pacific and finished the season with a 10-10 record in singles, and the Italian was 12-11 in doubles for the Mustangs.

Skylar Minns, who was 13-3 in singles this season, held a 7-5, 3-3 lead over Jenna Goessel at No. 5 singles when the Aggies clinched.

Minns, a junior from New Braunfels, Texas, was 9-2 in the No. 5 position this season.

Midwestern State finished the season with a 17-8 record and was 9-1 at home this year. The Mustangs made their 10th consecutive appearance in the NCAA Division II Women's Tennis Championship.
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