With post-season play only a few weeks away, the women’s tennis players have been shuffling and quick-stepping to the right rhythm as they continue to dominate their opponents, conference and non-conference alike. The team improved its record to 14-2 with two big wins this past week. On Saturday, the Yeowomen defeated Baldwin-Wallace 7-2, winning five out of six of their singles matches and two out of three doubles.

The women’s match-up against Kenyon on Wednesday highlighted their ability to follow through. First-year Kimiko Glynn, sophomore Bianca Barr and senior Jessica Hauser won their singles matches. Hauser and fellow senior Ary Amerikaner also won at doubles; the two teams were tied at four.

In the end, the fluid strokes of first-year Jackie Golden were what gave Oberlin the extra power to swing through to a tight 5-4 win. “I was very happy with the results of my singles match because I came back from being behind and then I didn’t let up,” she said. Golden won at the number five singles spot 4-6, 6-3, 7-6. The women are set to host Allegheny College on Saturday at 1 p.m. and then Denison on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. “We are hoping to come out strong in the conference tournament,” said Golden.

After giving up two hard-fought matches against nationally recognized teams, the Oberlin men fought through to a 6-1 victory over Wabash College this past Sunday in the Great Lakes Colleges Association Championships. The day before, they were decisively defeated 7-0 by Depauw University and less resolutely by Hope College 4-3. Oberlin players junior David Cotter and sophomore Aaron Parker had nail-biting three set singles victories while first-year Chris “the Predator” Pray obliterated his opponent’s hopes 6-4, 6-3.

The next day, the Yeomen bounced back in full force. The team overwhelmed the Little Giants by winning all but the smug number five singles, which senior Ananya Balaram lost 4-6, 7-6, 11-9.

Colin Burling, a first-year tyrant at number three doubles, said the team has generated mental focus from the weekend after learning how their conference competition fared.

“It was a bit of a wake-up call to see that Denison beat a team that beat us since they’re coming up on Tuesday,” he said of the Big Red, who defeated Hope 4-3 over the weekend.

On Thursday the Yeomen dropped a match to conference opponent Kenyon College, 6-1. Pray scored the Yeomen’s sole team point in an ulcer-inducing victory, 6-2, 3-6, 12-10.

The men have a full away schedule this weekend, but will ultimately look to the Tuesday, 4:30 p.m. match up, their last home-court appearance of the season, for postseason premonition.

“We want to finish as high as we can in the conference tournament,” said Burling. “This Denison matchup may tell us where we’ll end up.” The NCAC tournament for both genders is scheduled to begin Friday, April 22.