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Stephanie Fortney

Women's Tennis

Top Moments of 2011-12 #5: Stephanie Fortney's 10-8 Tie-Breaker Win Hands DU WHAC Title

Fortney and crew spent most of the season ranked in the NAIA Top-25

Editor's Note: This is the sixth in a 10-part series recapping the Top 10 sports moments of the 2011-12 year at Davenport University as compiled by the DU Sports Information Department. New moments will be revealed over the next few weeks. See the bottom of the page for links to all of the top-ten moments. If you would like to make any comments about the selections, please email athletics@davenport.edu.

Apr. 21, 2012 - GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Davenport won four of the six singles matches to pull out a dramatic 5-4 win in the 2012 WHAC Championship match over Northwestern Ohio.  The title is the first in the three year history of the women's tennis program as Diana Favela was named the Most Valuable Player and Patrick Grashorn the Coach of the Year.

Davenport picked up their first conference championship in tennis today with a dramatic come from behind 5-4 win over Northwestern Ohio.  The win sends DU into next week's NAIA Regional tournament in Lima, Ohio as the top seed.

The Lady Panthers, who have now won nine matches in a row, fell behind 2-1 after doubles play with their lone win coming at No. 1 behind the team of Diana Favela and Denisse Favela.  The duo improved to 27-2 on the year in doubles play with an 8-2 win.

The twin sisters then started out singles play with two quick wins at No. 1 and No. 2 with Diana winning 6-0, 6-4 and Denisse winning 6-0, 6-1 to help DU take a 3-2 lead.  The next Panther victory came from Angelica Woods who won 6-0, 6-3 at No. 5.

The Racers, who won the 2011 championship with a 5-4 win over DU, kept things close winning the next two matches at No. 4 and No. 6 to have it all come down  No. 3 singles which was in a third set tie-breaker between Stephanie Fortney of DU and Shaye Warman of UNOH.

Warman took the first set 6-4 while Fortney evened the match with a 6-2 win in the second. With the third all tied at 6, the two players played a dramatic tiebreaker which was eventually won 10-8 by Fortney to pull out the 5-4 win for Davenport.

At the conclusion of the tournament, DU was honored well on the All-WHAC squads with Diana Favela being named the Most Valuable Player for the second straight year. She was joined by her sister Denisse on the 1st Team for singles as well as 1st Team for doubles.  Head coach Patrick Grashorn was named the WHAC Coach of the Year and Kristi Kuzdalearned the Champions of Character nod.



#1 - Monday, July 30
#2 - Monday, July 23
#3 - Monday, July 16
#4 - Monday, July 9
#5 - Stephanie Fortney's 10-8 Tie-Breaker Win Hands DU WHAC Title
#6 - Drew Sain and Karlee Despres Post No-Hitters
#7 - Lonnie Fairfax Posts 18 Assists in WHAC Tournament Win
#8 - Karlee Despres Breaks Single Game Record with 43 Points
#9 - Volleyball Sweeps WHAC and NAIA Power Madonna
#10 - Baseball Re-Writes Record Books in 31-7 Romp of Alma


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