ROCK ISLAND, Ill. – Augustana easily advanced to the final of the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin's Automatic Qualifying Tournament on Friday, April 29  at the Lower Campus Courts with a 5-0 win over North Central. The Vikings, who won the AQ Tournament last year with a thrilling 5-4 victory over Wheaton, will now face the winner of the Wheaton/Carthage semi-final in the championship round on Saturday, April 30 at 11:00 a.m. at the Quad City Tennis Club in Moline, Illinois.
 
Augustana jumped out to a 3-0 lead with a sweep of the doubles matches. The number one team of junior Dana Goggin (Buffalo Grove HS, Arlington Heights, Ill.) and senior Aileen MacDonald (Mundelein HS, Mundelein, Ill.) defeated Kelsey Forkin and Clare O'Connor 8-5. Junior Lauren Goggin (Buffalo Grove HS, Arlington Heights, Ill.) and sophomore Mollie Magee (Olathe East HS, Overland Park, Kan.)  defeated Katie Drone and Kassandra Bernardo 8-2 at number two. The number three team of freshmen Caitlyn Schaffer (Kenwood Academy, Chicago, Ill.) and Madeline Lombardi (Edwardsville HS, Glen Carbon, Ill.) beat Marisa Coladipietro and Karissa Schroeder 8-1.
 
In singles action Lauren Goggin beat Drone 6-1; 6-1 at number one and Schaffer took care of Schroeder 6-1; 6-1 at number five. The other four singles matches were unfinished because the match ended when the Vikings reached five points.
 
Augustana is now 24-7 overall and that ties the school record set by last year's 24-9 team.