Box Score The University of Incarnate Word women's tennis team won their first Southland Conference match of the season, sweeping Lamar University, 7-0, at the Mabry Tennis Center Friday afternoon.

The win moves UIW to 2-8 overall and 1-2 in SLC play and snaps an eight-match losing streak.

The Cardinals got off to a fast start, winning the doubles point to go up 1-0. UIW's first doubles team of Estefania Gonzalez and Ine Lamprecht made quick work of their opponents, winning 6-2. Lamar took third doubles as Amelia
Perez-Corona and Victoria Jordana Salcedo Franklin lost a close 6-4 battle, leaving second doubles as the deciding match for the point. Luciana Paez Hernandez and Amelie Montalvo came through in the clutch for UIW, winning their match 6-4 and securing the doubles point.

Incarnate Word carried the momentum into their singles matches and proceeded to take care of business one match after another, winning each singles match. Five of the six matches were over in under two hours, with just Gonzalez's match at first singles not only going all three sets, but a lengthy three sets at that, finishing in just over three hours.

Lamprecht picked up her second win of the afternoon with a 6-2, 6-2 win at third singles, finishing in a little over an hour to put UIW up 2-0. Then, just minutes later, Alexandra Mill won 6-0, 6-4 to make it 3-0. The victory-sealing win came from Salcedo Franklin at fifth singles. She was in complete control after winning the first set, 6-1, but Salcedo Franklin, just as quickly as she had won the first set, lost the second set 1-6, setting up an "anyone's game" third set. Fittingly, the fifth singles opponents went to a third set tiebreaker and Salcedo Franklin came out on top, locking in the UIW victory.

The next two matches finished simultaneously, both in favor of Incarnate Word, moving the match score to 6-0. Perez-Corona won her second singles match, 6-2, 7-6, and Montalvo won 6-0, 7-5, at fourth singles, leaving just Gonzalez on the court.   

Gonzalez won the first set 6-3 and had a chance to finish off the straight-set victory, but dropped the second set in a tiebreaker, playing on to the third set. She faced another tiebreaker in the third set, but this time it ended in her favor, and she secured the 6-3, 6-7, 7-6 victory.

The Cardinals continue Southland Conference play in two weeks when they travel to Thibodaux, LA to play Nicholls. Match time is set for 1:00 p.m.