Tournament Central

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The No. 14-ranked (ITA Division II) Flagler College women's tennis team received the No. 1 seed for the first time ever for the NCAA Division II Women's Tennis Southeast Regional, which will be played at the University of North Georgia in Dahlonega. The tournament will be held Sunday through Tuesday (May 9-11) at the UNG Tennis Complex at Yahoola Creek.
 
Flagler (15-4), the Peach Belt Conference Tournament champion, is making its 11^th appearance in the NCAA Division II Tournament and will await the winner of the first round match between No. 4 seed, and host, North Georgia, and No. 5 seed Erskine College. The regional semifinal match will be played at 11 a.m. on Monday. The other region semifinal match on Monday is between No. 3 seed Wingate University and No. 2 seed Columbus State University.

The winners of the semifinal matches will advance to play in the region final on Tuesday at 3 p.m. The winner of that match will advance to the NCAA Division II Women's Tennis National Championship, May 18-21, at Surprise, Arizona.

The Saints are led by No. 24-ranked Eden Schlagenhauf and No. 31-ranked Luisa Hrda. Schlagenhauf holds a 20-5 record in singles this year and is 13-4 this spring. She is 7-2 in her last 10 singles matches. Hrda is 12-3 this spring and is a perfect 7-0 at No. 1 singles. Her three-set win last Saturday over No. 9 Beatriz Lopez of Columbus State University gave Flagler its first PBC Tournament title in women's tennis. Both were selected to the All-PBC first team. Alessandra Traub took home second-team all-conference honors.

The doubles team of Schlagenhauf and Hrda is ranked No. 24 in the nation. They are 5-3 this year, but they have not played together since April 3.

Flagler had three doubles teams earn All-PBC honors. Hrda and Amelie Vossgaetter earned first-team accolades while the duo of Paloma Martrinez and Schlagenhauf as well as Florencia Massardo Brain and Traub took home second-team honors.    

Flagler is 2-0 this year against North Georgia. The Saints defeated the Nighthawks 5-2 on April 17 at Treaty Park and then won again on April 28 at the Flagler Tennis Center in a PBC Tournament semifinal, 4-1. Flagler leads the series between the two 12-2, but in the last five matches, the Saints are 3-2.

North Georgia is 11-4 this season and ranked No. 16 in the nation. Vaishali Jorge is a first-team all-conference singles player as she posted a 7-8 record at No. 1 singles. Jorge and Johanna Lippert earned first-team all-conference doubles honors. The tandem has produced a 6-4 record this season.

Erskine won the Conference Carolinas Tournament title and enters with a 16-3 record. The Flying Fleet won their 12^th league championship on April 25 and it was their first since 2016.

Erskine is led by Conference Carolinas Player of the Year Emma Bentz. She has a 15-2 record this spring, all at No. 1 singles.

Flagler is 3-0 all-time vs. Erskine with all three coming on neutral courts. The first meeting was at a regional at Savannah, Georgia on April 30, 2012, which was a 5-1 victory.

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