Wildcats Earn Split in Home-Opening Matches For W. Tennis

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DAVIDSON, N.C. — The Davidson women's tennis team got their 2011 season underway with a split in their first two matches as they took a 7-0 decision over North Carolina A&T in the morning, before coming up just short in a 4-3 defeat to Gardner-Webb in the final match of a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon at the Knobloch Tennis Center.

The Wildcats rolled to their 377th career win under the guidance of Caroline Price, who is entering her 29th year, with a 7-0 blanking of A&T. They opened the match with a sweep of the doubles positions, giving up just three total games in all three matches combined.

Then in singles play, Davidson took all six matches in straight sets, allowing the Aggies no more than two games in any one set.

The freshmen quartet of Nisha Crouser (Columbus, Ohio), Brites Moniz-Soares (Angra Do Heroismo, Portugal), Tamara Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Frizzi Bschorer (Barnin, Germany) each scored their first collegiate singles wins, while Crouser, Moniz-Soares and Bschorer picked up their first career doubles wins.

Also scoring wins against the Aggies was Stephani Synn (Conover, N.C.) at No. 1 singles, 6-1, 6-2, and Samantha Galainena (Burr Ridge, Ill.) at No. 4 singles, 6-1, 6-0.

In the afternoon match, Davidson grabbed a 1-0 lead to start against Gardner-Webb as it took two of the three doubles matches. Synn and Crouser earned an 8-6 triumph at No. 1 doubles, while Alison Rauh (Trier, Germany) and Moniz-Soares cruised to an 8-2 decision at No. 2.

But, Gardner-Webb came back to take the top three singles spots and then finished the match off with a win at No. 5.

Scoring Davidson's other two points on the afternoon were Moniz-Soares and Romina Clemente (Canton, Ohio). Moniz-Soares made it a perfect day in singles for her with a three-set, 6-2, 6-7, 6-2, win over Jenny Lunde at No. 4 singles.

Clemente, who earned a doubles win with Crouser vs. the Aggies, closed out the match with a super tie-breaker win, 10-4, in the third set after her and Rita Gouveia split the first two sets, 6-2 and 2-6, at No. 6 singles.

The Wildcats, in the midst of seven-match homestand to open the season, play another doubleheader on Saturday, Jan. 29 against Radford and UNC Asheville. Match times are set for 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

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