#8 Gardner-Webb Falls to #1 Charleston Southern, 4-0, in Big South Quarterfinals
April 16, 2014 | Women's Tennis
Boiling Springs, N.C. - #1 Charleston Southern used doubles victories at the No. 1 and No. 2 positions as well as three straight-set singles wins to advance to the Semifinals of the 2014 Big South Women's Tennis Championship, defeating #8 Gardner-Webb by a 4-0 margin on Wednesday at the Webb Tennis Complex.
GWU (10-13, 2-7 BSC) was unable to overcome a 1-0 deficit incurred during doubles play. Charleston Southern (16-3, 9-0 BSC) took control with an 8-1 triumph at No. 3 doubles from the duo of Placha/Luecke and finished the point with a 8-6 win from Hubler/Walters at the No. 1 doubles position.
The Buccaneers advanced to the Tournament's Quarterfinal round with three singles wins.
At No. 1 singles, 2014 Player of the Year Marketa Placha defeated Yasmin Doost (Bray, Maidenhead, England) 6-1, 6-1 to put the top-seeded Bucs up 2-0. Nicolin Luecke moved CSU within a point of advancing with a 6-1, 6-2 triumph against Valeriia Popko (St. Petersburg, Russia) at No. 4 singles, and Yvonne Hubler clinched with a 6-2, 6-2 win against Jenny Lunde (Oslo, Norway) at the No. 2 spot.
In the other singles matches, Rokia Sacko (Montreal, Canada) led Charleston Southern's Mi'Kola Cooper 6-2, 3-3 at the No. 5 position and Alia Nour led Catherine White (Rock Hill, S.C .) 7-5, 2-1 at the No. 6 spot before Hubler's clinching point.
Head Coach Jim Corn:
"Congratulations to Charleston Southern, as always they were well prepared. Mike Baker does a great job preparing his team. We had some really competitive matches going on and they were just better than us today. I am really proud of my girls they fought and were very competitive in a lot of the matches. We had a good year, I've had a great group of girls it's been a lot of fun to work with them and I feel really blessed to have been their coach."
