The Valparaiso University tennis team picked up three singles wins and two doubles wins on Sunday's final day of the Redbird Invitational, hosted by Illinois State in Normal, Ill. A pair of Beacons finished as runners-up in singles play. This tournament served as a de facto Missouri Valley Conference Individual Championship after that event was discontinued prior to this year, with the majority of the tennis-playing members of the conference represented in Central Illinois this weekend.
 
How It Happened

• Senior Moira Silva (Houston, Texas / Westside) and sophomore Andrea Delgado (Richmond, Texas / Foster [Dallas Baptist]) finished as runners-up in their respective singles flights, as both players dropped their title matches on Sunday. Silva took the second set from Murray State's Valeria Chaikovskaia but dropped a competitive third set to fall 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 in the Flight 1 title match.
• Delgado finished as the runner-up in Flight 5, falling to Bradley's Tseng in straight sets in Sunday's title match.
• Sophomore Lacey Tanner (Fort Pierce, Fla. / Florida Virtual School) was victorious on Sunday, winning the seventh-place match in Flight 2 in straight sets. She defeated UNI's Raznatovic 6-4, 6-4.
• Another Valpo victory on Sunday came from Madi Rogers (Clearwater, Fla. / Florida Virtual [Bradley]), who dropped just two games in a 6-1, 6-1 sweep of UNI's Begic in the Flight 6 seventh-place match.
• A pair of Beacons matched up in a third-place showdown in Flight 7, with Jolene Fernandes (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) eking out an 8-7(5) win over Ana Baron (Crown Point, Ind. / Crown Point).
• Valpo's top doubles tandem of Silva and Rogers won the seventh-place match in Flight 1, topping UNI's Li/Raznatovic 8-5. In Flight 3, Popa and Delgado prevailed over Murray State's Melato/Dethridge in the consolation final by an 8-5 score.

Inside the Matches

• Silva's doubles win was the 45^th of her career, 10^th in the program record book. She needs one more doubles win to move into a tie for ninth.
• Popa and Delgado beat a doubles team that featured Melato, who was part of the all-conference No. 1 doubles tandem last season.

Up Next
The Beacons will host Holy Cross (Ind.) on Friday, Oct. 3 at the Valpo Tennis Complex. The match was originally scheduled for Sept. 13 and was postponed due to rain.