LAKE CHARLES—McNeese women's tennis singles player Salome Fluri and the Cowgirls doubles team Ana Hollweg and Elena Morales advanced to the Southland Conference Individual Tennis Championship matches after picking up semifinal wins on Saturday.
 
Fluri earned the right to defend her SLC Individuals title with a 6-2, 6-2 straight set win over Stephen F. Austin's Ana Paula Chavez.  Fluri, the tournament's No. 1 seed will face No. 3 seed Leticia Tarocco of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
 
The Cowgirls doubles team entered the tournament as the No. 2 seed and are the first Cowgirl doubles team to advance to the championship match in the three-year history of the SLC Individual Tennis Championship.  Hollweg and Morales defeated SFA's Avery Kinsey and Juliane Koschinski 6-2, 6-3.    
 
The SLC Individual champions will qualify for the 2026 ITA Conference Masters Championship on Nov. 5-8 in Rome, Georgia. 
 
From the ITA Conference Masters Championship, four players will qualify for the NCAA Singles Championship (semifinalists). Meanwhile, three doubles teams will qualify for the NCAA Doubles Championship through the Conference Masters (champion, finalist, third place).