Friday, October 21
Cary, N.C.
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NCCU Invitational
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The Wildcats Compete at the NCCU Invitational
10/21/2016 1:16:00 PM | Women's Tennis
Gavin McFarlin - Associate SID
NCCU Invitational Results (pdf)
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DURHAM, N.C. — Part of a busy weekend for the Davidson women's tennis team, half of the team competed at the two-day North Carolina Central Invitational Thursday and Friday at the NCCU Tennis Courts.
Davidson also has five players participating in the USTA/ITA Regional Championship, held in Chapel Hill, N.C., Oct. 20-24.
For the two-day invite hosted by NCCU, Sarah Stein, Cassidy Shell, Jenna Brunner and Ally Sexton all took part and each won at least one match.
Stein played in the top singles A flight bracket, picking up a first round win of 7-5, 6-3 against the host Eagles. She then dropped a close 6-3, 2-6, 10-7 decision to cross-county rival Charlotte's Megan Smith before falling in an exhibition by the score of 6-0, 6-1.
Taking part in the B singles flight was Shell and Brunner, with the junior Shell winning it all. She opened with a 6-1, 7-6(5) victory against Lyndsey Cover of NCCU and then pulled out a drawn out super tie-breaker win in the third set, 14-12, after splitting her first two sets, 6-3, 2-6, against UNCW's Xandra Fougner. Shell finished off her impressive run at the invite with a 6-2, 6-4 decision over another UNC Wilmington player to secure the title.
Brunner won her first match with easy, 6-3, 6-1, but was forced to pull out of her second round match due to an injury.
Rounding out the singles was Sexton in the C flight. The junior scored a pair of victories, first downing a player from the host Eagles, 6-0, 6-1, and then defeating Briana Bodner of Charlotte, 6-3, 6-4. Sexton lost her last match against UNCW in a hard-fought 6-4, 4-6, 10-8 match.
In doubles action, the team of Sexton and Stein earned a bye, but dropped their next match to a pair from the UNCW Seahawks in a tightly played match that came down to a tie-breaker, 8-7(3).
Brunner and Shell lost 8-2 to a duo from NCCU, but regrouped by blanking another Eagles doubles team, 8-0.
The rest Wildcats wrap up the weekend by taking part in the regional championship Friday-Sunday.
DavidsonPhotos.com
DURHAM, N.C. — Part of a busy weekend for the Davidson women's tennis team, half of the team competed at the two-day North Carolina Central Invitational Thursday and Friday at the NCCU Tennis Courts.
Davidson also has five players participating in the USTA/ITA Regional Championship, held in Chapel Hill, N.C., Oct. 20-24.
For the two-day invite hosted by NCCU, Sarah Stein, Cassidy Shell, Jenna Brunner and Ally Sexton all took part and each won at least one match.
Stein played in the top singles A flight bracket, picking up a first round win of 7-5, 6-3 against the host Eagles. She then dropped a close 6-3, 2-6, 10-7 decision to cross-county rival Charlotte's Megan Smith before falling in an exhibition by the score of 6-0, 6-1.
Taking part in the B singles flight was Shell and Brunner, with the junior Shell winning it all. She opened with a 6-1, 7-6(5) victory against Lyndsey Cover of NCCU and then pulled out a drawn out super tie-breaker win in the third set, 14-12, after splitting her first two sets, 6-3, 2-6, against UNCW's Xandra Fougner. Shell finished off her impressive run at the invite with a 6-2, 6-4 decision over another UNC Wilmington player to secure the title.
Brunner won her first match with easy, 6-3, 6-1, but was forced to pull out of her second round match due to an injury.
Rounding out the singles was Sexton in the C flight. The junior scored a pair of victories, first downing a player from the host Eagles, 6-0, 6-1, and then defeating Briana Bodner of Charlotte, 6-3, 6-4. Sexton lost her last match against UNCW in a hard-fought 6-4, 4-6, 10-8 match.
In doubles action, the team of Sexton and Stein earned a bye, but dropped their next match to a pair from the UNCW Seahawks in a tightly played match that came down to a tie-breaker, 8-7(3).
Brunner and Shell lost 8-2 to a duo from NCCU, but regrouped by blanking another Eagles doubles team, 8-0.
The rest Wildcats wrap up the weekend by taking part in the regional championship Friday-Sunday.
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