Women's Tennis: Feb. 21 Scoreboard
Southland Conference
New Orleans 6, Xavier (La.) 1
New Orleans 4, Southern 3
Missouri 4, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 3
Texas State 4, Northwestern State 3
Samford 6, Lamar 1
Prairie View A&M at Sam Houston State, Cancelled (Weather)
New Orleans 6, Xavier (La.) 1
New Orleans 4, Southern 3
NEW ORLEANS, La. – The New Orleans Privateers women's tennis team (5-4, 0-1) swept a doubleheader on Saturday, edging the Southern Jaguars 4-3 to start the day and ending with a 6-1 victory over the Xavier Gold Nuggets at the University Tennis Center.
New Orleans got out to a quick start, easily taking the doubles point over the Jaguars. Hafsa Laraibi and Yasmine Rashad won their match 6-1 at the 3 spot and Soledad Calderon Arroyo and Marta Sans wrapped up the first doubles match at 6-3.
In singles, the Jaguars dropped the first match to finish as Laraibi coasted by Kendall Bunch 6-1, 6-2. However, Southern took three of the next five singles matches, but New Orleans got the clinching victories from Anna Segarra Rius and Calderon.
All six matches were finished in straight sets. The Privateers broke a three-match losing skid to start the day and set the tone going into the afternoon match against NAIA opponent Xavier. New Orleans would cap off the final match of the day in much easier to finish to lock up a 2-0 day.
Against Xavier, in similar fashion the Privateers ran the proceedings in doubles. Sans and Calderon earned a 6-1 win and Rashad and Laraibi won 6-4 at the 3 spot to set the tone for singles play where the Privateers took all but one singles match.
The Privateers will finish off a busy weekend at home against Louisiana-Lafayette. The match is slated for an 11 a.m. start at the University Tennis Center.
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Missouri 4, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 3
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi women's tennis team dropped a 4-3 nail-biter today in a five-hour match against SEC member Missouri at the Thomas J. Henry Tennis Center. After the Tigers built a 3-1 lead, the Islanders (5-2) grinded their way back to knot the match at 3-3. The match came down to a three-set battle at No. 2 where the Tigers (8-4) clinched the match.
Missouri garnered an early 1-0 lead after an intense round of doubles action. The Islanders clinched a thrilling win at No. 1 doubles after the junior duo of Celia Rodriguez and Maider Martin edged Cassidy Spearman and Brianna Lashway, 8-7 (8) in a thrilling tiebreaker. The Islanders duo were down 6-3 and rallied back to win four straight games to capture a 7-6 lead. The Tigers sealed the next game to force the tiebreaker. Missouri built a 4-0 lead before the Islanders battled back once again to knot things at 4-4. After three more ties the Islanders clinched the match at 10-8. Martin and Rodriguez improve to 4-2 in the No. 1 slot.
In No. 2 doubles, the freshman-senior duo of Dzinic and Chelsea Horan dropped a close 8-5 loss to Madison Rhyner and Kelli Hine to even doubles at 1-1. With the doubles point on the line, the sophomore tandem of Judit Vives and Kerry Galhos also battled back against Bea Machado Santos and Brittany Lashway. After falling behind 6-3, the Islanders' pair captured back-to-back games to pull within one. After trading games, Missouri clinched the doubles point with an 8-6 victory. Galhos and Vives move to 4-1 on the year in the No. 3 spot.
The Tigers padded their lead to 2-0 after Brittany Lashway topped Horan 6-2, 6-2 at No. 6 singles. Martin then put the Islanders on the board with a three-set victory at No. 4. The junior topped Brianna Lashway 6-2 in the first set, before falling 6-1 in the second set. In the third, Martin powered her way to a 6-3 win. Missouri then padded its lead to 3-1 after a straight-set win at No. 1. Vives dropped a tough 7-6 (2) first-set tiebreaker loss to Hine before falling 6-4 in the second set.
The final three courts came down to three-set battles as Rodriguez and Galhos each secured their matches. Rodriguez edged Santos in the first set 7-5 at No. 3 singles before falling 6-2 in the second set. In the third, the junior posted a 6-2 win for the Islanders' second point of the day. Rodriguez has now won 19 of her last 20 matches, dating back to last season. She is also just one singles win away from tying Erika Iriarte's career record in third place with 41 wins. This season she has tallied a perfect 4-0 record at No. 3 singles.
Galhos then followed with a three-set win over Alex Clark at No. 5 singles. The sophomore also squeezed out a 7-5 first-set win before falling 6-4 in the second set. In the third, Galhos breezed to a 6-0 win to knot the match at 3-3 and improve her mark to 4-0 at the No. 5 spot.
The match then came down to No. 2 singles where Dzinic battled Spearman. The freshman lost the first set 6-3 before battling back to win a 7-6 (3) second-set tiebreaker. In the third, Dzinic fell 6-3 in an intense battle as Missouri captured the match.
The women's team will now trek to Edinburg, Texas, to face the Broncs on Feb. 26, for the second time this season. Doubles play is set for 1:30 p.m.
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Texas State 4, Northwestern State 3
SAN MARCOS, Texas – Northwestern State’s Tatiana Larina and Natalya Krutova collected straight-set singles victories, but Texas State nabbed victories in two of the final three singles matches Saturday to edge the Lady Demons, 4-3, at the Bobcat Tennis Complex on Saturday.
Larina swept Monica Pierott, 6-4, 6-0, while Krutova did the same to Ana Laura Gutierrez, 7-6 (4), 6-2, as the Demons (1-5) earned a split of the singles matches.
Larina and Krutova teamed up in doubles to defeat Gutierrez and Pippa Carr, 8-6, for NSU’s lone victory in the doubles competition. Texas State’s Pierott and Shannon Beckett edged Barbora Kollarova and Polina Ivanova, 8-6, and Katy Collins and Eva Dench grabbed an 8-2 win against NSU’s Aliona Ladutska and Emily Kerr to clinch the doubles point.
Ladutska battled back after dropping the first set of her singles match against Carr before rallying for a 1-6, 7-5, 7-5 victory.
Texas State (3-3) earned singles wins by Dench over Kollarova (6-4, 6-2); Beckett against Ivanova (7-5, 3-6, 6-3) and Collins against Kerr (6-1, 6-1) to collect the team win.
The Lady Demons continue their trip through central and south central Texas on Sunday when they face Texas-San Antonio at 10 a.m.
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Samford 6, Lamar 1
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Samford won the doubles point and put together five singles wins to down the Lamar women's tennis team 6-1 at the Samford Tennis Center on Saturday in nonconference action.
Hanna Elfving was Lamar's (3-3) lone win in the match, and she defeated Iva Parapunova, 6-2, 6-2, on court five.
Samford started off 1-0 with the point in doubles play. Kayta Lapayeva and Carolina Maso pushed their match on court one to a tiebreak, but Carita Moolman and Stephanie N'tcha took it 8-7 (8-6). Jessica Northcutands Yasmeen Ebada defeated Andrea Ivanovic and Anna Spengler 8-2 to take the point, and the match between Parapunova and Savannah Wood and Elfving and Stephanie Marchena went unfinished.
N'tcha defeated Lapayeva 7-5, 6-3 on line one in single play, and Ebada overpowered Ivanovic on court two 6-2, 6-1. On court three, Northcutt got by Anna Spengler 6-2, 7-5, and Moolman downed Maso 6-2, 6-3. Teodora Stefanovic lost to Wood on court six, 6-1, 6-2.
The Lady Cards return to the courts Sunday morning as they stay in Birmingham and will face off with UAB at 11 o'clock.
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