Storm end season in A-R-C AQ Tournament Semifinals

DECORAH, Iowa -- The Simpson College women's tennis squad closed its season with a 5-1 loss to Wartburg in the American Rivers Conference Automatic Qualifier Tournament Semifinals on Friday.

The Storm (11-7) finish the year with the program's first double-digit win performance since the 2012-13 campaign.

Emily King tallied the team's lone victory in a 6-3, 6-1 match at No. 2 singles. King finished her junior season with 14 victories.

Anna Wanek (No. 1), Kennedi Wright (No. 4) and Donni Kinghorn (No. 5) were still competing when the Knights (15-7) recorded their fifth point.

Wanek ends the year with 19 triumphs, Kinghorn had 11 and Wright had seven. Grubb was the third player to reach double-digit wins with 14 and Aubrey Ocheltree had five in her season with Simpson.

Wartburg takes on Luther in the championship match on Saturday at 1 p.m. in Decorah.

Singles competition
1. Madison Overmann (WAR) vs. Anna Wanek, 6-4, 1-6, 1-0, unfinished
2. Emily King (SIM) def. Olivia Phillips, 6-3, 6-1
3. Sydney Rottinghaus (WAR) def. Megan Grubb, 6-4, 6-1
4. Ambriel Jacobs (WAR) vs. Kennedi Wright, 5-7, 1-1, unfinished
5. Alyssa Guse (WAR) vs. Donni Kinghorn, 4-6, 3-5, unfinished
6. Georgia Nissen (WAR) def. Aubrey Ocheltree, 6-0, 6-0

Doubles competition
1. Olivia Phillips/Madison Overmann (WAR) def. Anna Wanek/Emily King, 8-4
2. Ambriel Jacobs/Alyssa Guse (WAR) def. Kennedi Wright/Donni Kinghorn, 8-1
3. Sydney Rottinghaus/Rebekah Corson (WAR) def. Megan Grubb/Aubrey Ocheltree, 8-3