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St. Louis, Mo. - The No. 21 Drury University women's tennis team won its third Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship in the past four years, as the Panthers rallied from a 4-1 deficit to claim the 5-4 victory over No. 47 Lewis University, snapping the Flyers' 10-match winning streak, at the Dwight Davis Tennis Center on Sunday (Apr. 20) afternoon.

With the win, Drury improves to 20-4, while the Flyers fall to 14-4. The selection show for the 2014 Division II Women's Tennis Championship will be announced on Tuesday, April 29th at 7:30 PM on www.ncaa.com, where both teams will find out their next opponent.

"I'm proud of our effort and our fight," Lewis head women's tennis coach Brett Bridel said. "We had a good tournament, but we are better than how we played today.

"Hopefully this motivates us to clean up some things and be better for the national tournament."

Lewis jumped out to a 2-1 lead following doubles action, as the Flyers earned victories at both No. 2 and No. 3. Lewis senior Zsofia Lanstiak (Budapest, Hungary/Karinthy Frigyes Gimnazium) and freshman Ana Banic (Skradin, Croatia/Gimnazija Antuna Vrancica) teamed up to edge Drury's Hadeil Ali and Samanta Zambrano, 9-8 at No. 2 doubles. At No. 3 doubles, Lewis sophomore Jill Wetmore (Ottawa, Ill./Ottawa) and senior Kendra Mills (Elmhurst, Ill./York) claimed the 8-6 win over Katarina Kostovic and Natalia Kozel.

The Flyers captured two more victories in singles action from 2014 GLVC Player of the Year, Zsofia Kranczicki (Eger, Hungary/Szilagyi Erzsebet Gimnazium es Kollegium) and Lanstiak. Kranczicki dropped Ali, 6-4, 6-1, at No. 1 singles, while Lanstiak bested Lara Muller, 6-2, 6-2, at No. 2 singles.