Wofford 7, King College 0
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - The women's team grabbed their second win of the young season, defeating King College 7-0. The Terriers defeated the Tornado in every match, picking up each doubles and singles win. The win gives the team a 2-1 record on the season. The match was King College's first match of the season and the loss drops them to 0-1.
The Terriers pushed their match win streak to 18, after winning every doubles and singles match in the previous win against North Carolina A&T. Wofford took control of the match early, picking up the doubles point. Sarah Evans and Julia Paulson were the first off the courts with an 8-0 win against Brittany Freund and Nerece Stoltz. Meagan Laframboise and Lucy Schermerhorn mirrored the same result at the No. 3 spot, defeating Karissa King and Eden Sherrod 8-0. Haley Baird and Garcia continued the win streak, topping the King College's No. 1 pair Sarah Anderson and Virginie Brioschi, 8-2.
Emilia "Frenchie" Milovanovic continued her unbeaten streak in singles, beating Anderson 6-1, 6-0, giving the senior a 3-0 record in singles on the season at the No. 1 slot. Stephanie Cox was next off the courts, sweeping past her competition, King, 6-0, 6-0 at the No. 4 position. The win gives Cox her first singles victory of the season.
Senior Haley Baird confirmed the win after beating her opposition, Stoltz, 6-1, 6-0 at the No. 3 spot. Garcia continued the winning trend, beating Brioschi 6-1, 6-2 at the No. 1 position. Schermerhorn grabbed her second singles win of the season, defeating Freund 6-1, 6-2 at the No. 5 spot. Samantha Sullivan picked up the first singles win of her tennis career at the No. 6 position after pushing past Sherrod 6-0, 6-1. The Terriers won each match in straight sets on the day.
The women's team will be traveling to Colorado Springs, Colorado for the next three matches. The Terriers are competing in a tournament and will face opposition from Colorado State, Air Force and South Dakota. The first match is set to begin at 8:00 am, February 12th against Colorado State.
Winthrop 7, Davidson 0
DAVIDSON, N.C. - Hoping to close out its seven-match homestand in winning style, Davidson was unable to upset No. 66 Winthrop on the tennis courts, falling 7-0 to the Eagles in women's tennis at the Knobloch Indoor Tennis Center on Wednesday evening.
Davidson fell to 3-4 on the year, while Winthrop, ranked No. 65 to start the season, evened its record at 5-5.
Both teams battled it out in the doubles action as the first two spots went down to the wire. Nisha Crouser and Stephani Synn lost 8-6, and Alison Rauh and Brites Moniz-Soares fell 8-7. The Eagles then sweep the doubles when they took the third position as well.
For the second straight match, Davidson battled hard in singles action, but came up short again as Winthrop took all six matches. The Wildcats also dropped all six singles matches to Liberty last time out.
Senior Samantha Galainena had a close match, falling to Lisa Wilkinson 6-4, 7-5 at No. 5, while Romina Clemente suffered a 6-2, 7-5 setback at No. 6.
Alison Rauh also kept things close early in her singles match before taking a 6-4, 6-3 setback to Elizaveta Zaytseva at No. 2.
The 'Cats hit the road for the first time, going to the Northeast to play Brown on Saturday at 11 a.m. and then Boston on Sunday at 10 a.m.