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Three Titles for the Braves at Bradley Invitational

Junior Sandra Maletin earned her third career top-flight singles championship at the Bradley Invitational

Marjanovic, Perlwitz, Maletin Bradley Invite champs

Bobby Parker, Associate AD for Communications Women's Tennis 9/22/2019 3:19:00 PM

Box Score PEORIA, IL – For the third consecutive year, Braves junior Sandra Maletin waltzed through her challengers to win the top singles flight at the Bradley Invitational and the host team added a pair of singles co-championships to highlight the final day of tournament action Sunday at the Clubs at River City indoor courts.

Overall, Bradley's seven players completed the five-team tournament with a 19-9 (.679) combined record and half of the event's six flight championships. In addition to Maletin's 3-0 run through the Singles Bradley Flight, junior Nina Marjanovic and sophomore Nikki Perlwitz both finished 3-0 in the Singles Red Flight.

The Bradley teammates both reached the Red Flight final, but were paired against different players to avoid the intrasquad matchup in the championship. Perlwitz rallied for a 3-6, 6-1, 10-4 win against Illinois State's Jelena Karla Vujicic, who was making her season singles debut. Marjanovic made it a Bradley co-champions sweep by holding off Western Michigan's Elizabeth Trupp: 6-1, 3-6, 10-8.

Maletin won all three of her weekend singles matches in straight sets. She finished off her third Bradley Invitational singles championship with a 6-2, 7-5 win against SIU Edwardsville's Jill Lambrechts.

In addition to Sunday's three championship match wins, sophomore Bozana Lojpur secured Bradley's fourth win of the day by claiming a 6-0, 6-4 win in the Bradley Flight consolation final. Senior Natalia Barbery tried to play through an abdominal strain, but was forced to retire midway through the first set in her Braves Flight championship match. Frehsman Victoria Sanchez Bronzetti dropped a 3-set decision in the consolation draw of the Braves Flight.

Sanchez Bronzetti teamed with Marjanovic to win the Doubles White championship Saturday as five Braves had a role in the team's three flight championships.

Bradley will have a week off before competing in the Missouri Valley Conference Individual Championships Oct. 4-6 at Northern Iowa.

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