ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Henderson State administered some tough play Friday evening against the Great American Conference's third-place Southeastern Oklahoma State Savage Storm, but came up just short as HSU fell to hard-hitting SOSU, 5-2.  
 
Doubles play saw a pair of great competition at Nos. 1 & 2, with 2s Georjemah Row and Katie Watts holding a 3-2 lead before eventually falling, 6-3. Mulan Kamoe and Franny Nyarko at No. 1 held a 4-3 lead in what had been a back-and-forth match up to then before play was suspended due to the doubles point having already been clinched by the Savage Storm.
 
After Southwestern got out to a 3-0 lead after taking the first two singles finishes, Kamoe got the Reddies going first, storming back from a 6-1 first-set loss to defeat Southwestern's Zulay Castaneda, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3, bringing her singles record to 5-6.
 
Nyarko backed that up with her third victory at the No. 3 line after claiming a massive straight-set win over SOSU's Georgia Hosking, finding victory in a second-set tiebreaker where she rattled off six straight points, 6-4, 7-6 (7-5).
 
With HSU having closed the gap to 3-2, the Savage Storm took the final two matches, moving the overall match score to 5-2. Henderson State (4-7, 2-4) will close out its season tomorrow against Oklahoma Baptist for senior day at the Bettye Wallace Tennis Center at 3 p.m. where it will look to lock up the No. 5 seed in next week's GAC Championships.
 
 
 
RESULTS
 
Doubles
No. 1 Mulan Kamoe/Franny Nyarko (HSU) vs. Zulay Castaneda/Vanessa Cozamanis (SOSU) 4-3 (unfinished)
No. 2 Georgia Hosking/India Shiaelis (SOSU) defeated Georjemah Row/Katie Watts (HSU) 6-3
No. 3 Elizaveta Tregubova/Vanessa Nitu (SOSU) defeated Erica Jaggernauth/Tirzah Bailey (HSU) 6-1
 
Singles
No. 1 Mulan Kamoe (HSU) defeated Zulay Castaneda (SOSU) 1-6, 6-2, 6-3  
No. 2 Vanessa Nitu (SOSU) defeated Georjemah Row (HSU) 6-2, 6-1
No. 3 Franny Nyarko (HSU) defeated Georgia Hosking (SOSU) 6-4, 7-6 (7-5),  
No. 4 Elizaveta Tregubova (SOSU) defeated Erica Jaggernauth (HSU) 6-2, 6-2
No. 5 India Shiaelis (SOSU) defeated Tori Johnson (HSU) 6-2, 6-2  
No. 6 Vanessa Cozamanis (SOSU) defeated Katie Watts (HSU) 6-1, 3-6, 10-8