CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland State opened the first day of the Horizon League Fall Individual Championship on Friday evening.
 
Anna Mancino picked up the lone victory in the first round of singles with a 6-0, 6-2 win over Hanan Awale of IU-Indy. Mancino then fell to the seventh-seed Natalia Castaneda of Milwaukee, 7-5, 7-6.
 
The Green and White picked up two wins in doubles with Laura Tapia/Anna McKnight (8-2) and Anna Mancino/Leah Geisz (8-6).
 
Those two doubles teams will continue their championship quest tomorrow at 1 p.m.
 
Five of the six singles players will compete in the back draws, beginning at 10:00 a.m.

CHAMPIONSHIP PAGE INFORMATION

Singles {First Round}
Anna Mancino (CSU) def. Hanan Awale (IUI), 6-0, 6-2
Theodora Kousiou (NIU) def. Melliz Petkova Mustafa (CSU), 3-6, 6-2, 6-2
Valentina Vallova (UWM) def. Anna McKnight (CSU), 6-1, 6-4
Martyna Piechowicz (OU) def. Jenna Redmile (CSU), 6-3, 6-4
Rebeca Garcia Miralles (NIU) def. Leah Geisz (CSU), 6-3, 6-1
Lexie Hankel (UWM) def. Laura Tapia (CSU), 5-7, 6-4, 6-1
 
Singles {Second Round}
No. 7 Natalia Castaneda (UWM) def. Anna Mancino (CSU), 7-5, 7-6
 
Doubles {First Round}
Laura Tapia / Anna McKnight (CSU) def. Hanan Awale / Kally Kadzinski (IUI), 8-2
Rebeca Garcia Miralles / Sophia Shlyakhta (NIU) def. Jenna Redmile / Melliz Petkova Mustafa (CSU), 8-4
Anna Mancino / Leah Geisz (CSU) def. Elisa Rubio / Lexie Hankel (UWM), 8-6