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Women's Tennis Competes at Milwaukee Tennis Classic and Gopher Invite

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DES MOINES, Iowa -- The Drake University women's tennis team continued their fall season by splitting up the squad, as Summer Brills and Tess Herder played at the Milwaukee Tennis Classic, while the rest of the team competing at the Gopher Invitational on Friday.

Herder advanced to the second-round with a three-set thriller over Iowa's Danielle Burich, 7-5, 0-6, 7-6(4). In the second-round, Herder fell to top-seeded Sinead Lohan from Miami (Fla.), 6-1, 7-6(6).

Brills dropped her opening singles match 6-4, 6-4 to Wisconsin's Sara Castellano, but bounced back to roll past Milwaukee's Anna Daniel-Fuentes 6-2, 6-3 in the consolation draw.