MINNEAPOLIS – The Drake University women's tennis team earned a pair of doubles wins and one singles victory on the third day of the Gopher Invitational Saturday, Sept. 22 at the Baseline Tennis Center.
 
In doubles play during the morning, sophomore Carmen Palumbo (McLean, Va.) and junior Sophia Haleas (Clarendon Hill, Ill.) lost to Nebraska's Reifeis/Haakenstad 3-6 and then beat UNI's Lynch/Merrick 6-4. Freshmen Kelsey Neville (Antioch, Ill.) and Daria Walczak (Lodz, Poland) lost to South Dakota's Lazarvich/Kmoshkova 3-6 and then defeated North Dakota's Sullivan/Kassilingam 6-2.
 
Following morning doubles action, singles matches were contested as Neville edged UNI's Caro 7-6 (5), 6-2 while Minnesota's Merzbacher and Zhang edged Walczak and Hales 6-3, 6-1 and 6-2, 6-3, respectively.
 
Play at the Gopher Invitational concludes Sunday with doubles and singles matches.