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Women’s Tennis Wraps Up Second Day of Drake Invitational

The Drake University women's tennis team continued competition at the Drake Invitational Saturday afternoon at the Roger Knapp Tennis Center.

The day was capped by a Bulldog doubles team and single advancing to the title match of their respective consolation brackets. Both those matches will be contested Sunday during the final day of the three-day tournament.

In the 'A' Doubles consolation bracket, Drake's Carmen Palumbo and Maria Tatarnikova advanced to Sunday's final by defeating the UNI team of Zizek and Carr, 8-7, to start action Saturday.

Tartarnikova also had a successful day in singles action as she won a pair of matches in the 'B' Singles consolation bracket to move into Sunday's final.