‘Cats Close Busy Week With 7-0 Win over WCU in W. Tennis

Sunday, March 14

Davidson, N.C.

1:00 p.m.

Davidson College

Western Carolina

Photo by: Tim Cowie - DavidsonPhotos.com

‘Cats Close Busy Week With 7-0 Win over WCU in W. Tennis

3/14/2010 6:16:06 PM | Women's Tennis

Gavin McFarlin -- Assistant SID

Match Results

DAVIDSON, N.C. – Playing their third match in a four-day stretch, the Davidson women's tennis team ended a busy week in winning style, blanking the Western Carolina Catamounts, 7-0, to earn their first Southern Conference win of the season on Sunday afternoon at the Covington Tennis Courts.

The week saw Davidson play No. 65 Winthrop, Samford and Western all at home as the 'Cats improved to 8-4 overall and 1-1 in league play. WCU fell to 1-6 overall and 0-4 in league matches.

For the fourth time this year, the Wildcats started off the match by sweeping all three doubles matches in setting the tone for the afternoon. The senior duo of Virginia Berry (Spartanburg, S.C.) and Teresa Wang (Charlotte, N.C.) captured their team-leading seventh doubles win with an 8-2 victory at No. 1.

Alison Rauh (Trier, Germany) and Stephani Synn (Conover, N.C.), the lone doubles team to win yesterday vs. Samford, remained perfect in league play with an 8-0 blanking of the Catamounts' No. 2 team, while senior Ali Gores (Charlotte, N.C.) and junior Samantha Galainena (Burr Ridge, Ill.) closed out the doubles point with an 8-1 win at No. 3.

Five of those Wildcats then cruised to straight set singles wins in leading to a clean sweep of all six spots. Berry evened her SoCon singles record to 1-1 with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Amanda Massey.

Wang was equally impressive in her singles triumph over Izabella Glinska at No. 2, taking home a 6-1, 6-3 victory to run her singles mark to 7-4, same as Berry.

Gores played a super tiebreaker (10-5) after splitting her first two sets, 6-2, 3-6, at No. 4, while Galainena gave up just two games to Emily Turke at No. 5 for a 6-2, 6-0 win, her seventh of the season.

Rauh got back on the winning track, snapping a six-match skid with a 6-4, 6-1 win at No. 3.

Closing out the Wildcats' last point was Katharine Dicconson (Pacific Grove, Calif.) with a 6-0, 6-1 win at No. 6 over Katie Barry to remain perfect on the season at 4-0 in singles play. In all four matches this year, she has allowed no more than three games to be scored against her and has given up just a combined two games in her last two matches.

Davidson wraps up a four-match homestand with a 10 a.m. match, Mar. 20, vs. College of Charleston.