Women's Tennis | 10/7/2016 8:14:00 PM

PICTURED: Vilde Olvin
Complete Results

North Park used valuable experience it gained from tough matches earlier in the week to defeat visiting Aurora 8-1 Friday afternoon and snap a seven-match losing streak.

After losing tough matches to both Augustana (9-0) and Wheaton (9-0) in the conference, the Vikings came out with a whole different attitude and it showed as they earned five of the six singles match victories and three by straight-set wins.

"It's great to have this win near the end of our fall season, to confirm what we have been seeing in our team's ability," Vikings' head coach Karl Clifton-Soderstrom said. "It also shows the overall strength of the CCIW conference this year in comparison to other regional DIII conferences.   I'm proud of our ability to compete in this conference, and to raise our own game because of it."

Vilde Olvin moved into the No. 1 singles spot just for the AU match, and took care of her opponent 6-0, 6-0. Juviel Vinluan followed with a straight-set 6-0, 6-2 win at No. 3 and McKenzie Harrison was victorious 6-0, 6-2 at No.5. Marlee McCabe started strong in her match at No. 4, earning a 6-0 win but had to fight off a furious comeback to pick up a 7-5 second set victory.

At doubles, the ITA tandem of Jasmine Madrid and Vilde Olvin paired up at No. 1 and earned an 8-1 win while Justine DeBosscher and Vinluan teamed up for a an 8-3 victory at No.2 to cap off the day.

North Park (2-10) returns to action Monday when it faces Carthage College in the regular season finale at 3:30 p.m.