AASU's Novakova Earns ITA "Super Bowl" Singles Championship

MOBILE, Ala. - Armstrong Atlantic State sophomore Sona Novakova has captured the 2009 ITA "Super Bowl" of Small College Tennis singles championship after a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Jillian O'Neill of Hillsborough Community College on Sunday at the Copeland-Cox Tennis Center in Mobile, Ala.

Novakova, the DII singles champion, defeated the Junior College champion to become the third AASU women's tennis player to earn the "Super Bowl" singles title, joining Zsofia Golopencza (2003) and Johanna Dahlback (2007).

With the victory, Novakova now earns a wild card berth into the the Nov. 5-8 ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, hosted by Yale University in New Haven, CT. She will be the only non-Division I player in the field.

A two-time ITA DII singles champion, Novakova has put together a tremendous 48-3 overall singles record as a Lady Pirate and she has not lost a singles match since November 9, 2008 - a streak of 32 consecutive matches.