MATCH DAY CENTRAL
No. 35 IUP Crimson Hawks (15-5, 5-1 PSAC West)
vs. West Virginia State Yellow Jackets (12-7, 7-0 MEC)
Friday, April 14, 2017 | 3:30 p.m.
Indiana, Pa. | Maple Street Courts

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AT A GLANCE
The 35th-ranked Crimson Hawks host West Virginia State on Friday in their final tune-up before next week's PSAC championships. IUP will also celebrate Sophie Butland (Taunton, Somerset, U.K./Bishop Fox's Community School), Raquel Gonzalez (San Sebastian, Spain/Colegio Sagrado Corazon), and Rachel Wood (Nottingham, U.K./West Bridgrord) in their Senior Day match, which is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. at the Maple Street Courts.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR
* The match features two of the top teams in the Atlantic Region, as IUP is ranked second and West Virginia State fourth in the latest NCAA Division II rankings
* The Crimson Hawks have defeated West Virginia State in each of the past six seasons, including 8-1 wins in 2015 and 2016
* West Virginia State has a pair of players ranked in the top 20 in the Atlantic Region by the ITA, including Laura Isbey (fourth) and Kierstin Hensley (13th); Isbey and Marta Yevstakhevych are also the seventh ranked doubles team in the region
* IUP has posted a pair of 9-0 wins already this week, defeating California and West Virginia Wesleyan; Wesleyan is ranked ninth in the NCAA regional rankings
* The Crimson Hawks are 3-1 against the top nine teams in the Atlantic Region
* 16th-ranked Jarka Petercakova (Bratislava, Slovakia/Sport Gymnasium) and Luise von Agris (Castrop-Rauxel, Germany/Adalbet-Stifter-Gymnasium) have won nine of their last 10 doubles matches, including four straight

IUP IN THE RANKINGS
Von Agris
Singles - third in Atlantic Region / Doubles - 16th in Division II, first in Atlantic

Petercakova
Singles - fifth in Atlantic / Doubles - 16th in Division II, first in Atlantic

Gonzalez
Singles - 11th in Atlantic / Doubles - eighth in Atlantic

Minchenkova
Singles - 14th in Atlantic / Doubles - eighth in Atlantic