Wofford 7, Western Carolina 0
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - The Wofford women's tennis team won its second straight match on Tuesday afternoon as they downed SoCon foe Western Carolina 7-0. The Terriers are now 1-0 in the Southern Conference and 2-6 overall, while the Catamounts fall to 3-7 overall and 0-2 in the SoCon.
The Terriers got the ball rolling early as they jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead after sweeping all three doubles matches. Sonia Anand and Kristin Demosthenes rolled at No. 3 doubles beating Emily Turke and Chelsea Best 8-1. The duo of Haley Baird and Sabrina Smyers quickly followed suit on court No. 2 as they downed Izabella Glinska and Layne Arnold 8-2 to secure the doubles point. Senior Cayley Wetzig and freshman Ashley Lawrence finished off the sweep on court No. 1 as they defeated Ainhoa Iglesias and Amanda Massey 8-5.
In singles play, Baird wasted no time in giving the Terriers a 2-0 lead as she downed Arnold 6-0, 6-1. Lawrence was the next Terrier off the court as she knocked off Massey 6-3, 6-4. Anand and Betsy Hauer clinched the match simultaneously as Hauer defeated Turke 6-4, 6-2 and Anand breezed by Best 6-2, 6-0 giving the Terriers a 5-0 lead with two matches remaining.
On court No. 1, Wetzig had to go to a third set match tiebreaker to prevail but did so on a match winning lob that clipped the back of the baseline giving her the victory by a score of 6-3, 4-6, 1-0 (10-7). Smyers completed the Terrier sweep in singles play as she ousted Iglesias 6-3, 6-1.
The Terriers return to action on Saturday at noon as they play host to the Chattanooga Mocs at the Reeves Tennis Center.
College of Charleston 6, Jacksonville State 1
College of Charleston 4, Towson 1
MT. PLEASANT, S.C. - The College of Charleston women's tennis team swept two matches with Jacksonville State and Towson this afternoon at the CofC Tennis Center at Patriots Point. The Cougars defeated Jacksonville St. 6-1 and knocked off Towson 4-1.
With the wins, the Cougars improve to 13-3 overall on the season, while Jacksonville State drops to 8-3 and Towson falls to 3-6. Charleston returns to action tomorrow with another pair of matches, hosting Minnesota at 12:30 p.m., then Lafayette at 4:15 p.m.
Against Jacksonville St., Charleston swept three matches in doubles to earn a team point, while the team won five of the six singles matches played to take the win.
Straight set winners in the match included Keely Mulligan in the number five spot (6-0, 6-1), Holly Dowse at number two (6-0, 6-0) and Kinsey Casey at number four (7-5, 6-2), which was the winning point in the match.
Against Towson, a four plus one (four singles matches, one doubles match) format was instituted in which each match counted as one point.
In singles, the Cougars took three of the four matches played. Casey won in the number four spot over Ashley Perentz 6-0, 6-1, Dowse was victorious at number one over Caitlin White 6-1, 6-2 and Caroline Newman took a 6-0, 6-1 decision against Lauren Cloonan at number two.
In the lone doubles match of the day, Mulligan and Amanda Schwarz took down Evelyn Izaquirre and Katie Young 6-0, 6-0.