SHAWNEE – After splitting its last four matches, the Oklahoma Baptist women's tennis team finds itself at 4-4 and 3-2 at home. Challenging that home record will be Northeastern St. when they come to Bison Hill Friday, March 6 at 1 p.m.
This will be the fourth year in a row the two programs have played each other, with 2018's meeting coming in the second round of the NCAA Central Region postseason tournament. The RiverHawks are 3-1 all time against OBU.
Headlines for this match will look no further than the head-to-head against the Bison's All-American No. 9
Kim Moosbacher and the RiverHawks' No. 3 Tatjana Stoll. Moosbacher is 1-0 against nationally ranked singles players this year while Stoll is 2-1. Stoll's one loss came to Angelo State's No. 25 Valentina Gonzalez, whom Moosbacher defeated earlier this year 6-3, 7-6, 6-4.
Last year's regular season match between Moosbacher and Stoll went the distance as Moosbacher came out victorious, 6-4, 4-6, 7-5. Both girls are 7-1 in singles play this season. Something will have to give.
Outside of the top-10 matchup,
Tahlia Walsh for the Bison is 4-4 on the season and
Hanna Zubkova is 5-2. The doubles team of
Melody Holcomb and
Jenna Noel is 4-2. Both Zubkova and Noel had to sit out the last match due to injury.
Northeastern comes into Bison Hill with the same record as OBU. Northeastern is coming off a 5-2 loss to No. 14 Angelo St. OBU lost to Angelo St. by the same score.
For live updates on all the Bison's matches, as well as the latest OBU tennis news, follow the team's official Twitter account (
@OBU_Tennis).
