Box Score Boiling Springs, N.C. -- The Gardner-Webb women's tennis team returned to the Webb Tennis Center Monday afternoon and defeated visiting Fairfield, 6-1.
Gardner-Webb improves to 2-5 while Fairfield, which competes in the Metro Atlantic Conference, falls to 1-4.
Starting the afternoon in the double's competition, graduate senior
Courtney Fyvie (Durbam, South Africa) and freshman Aliz'ee Poulin (Beauceville, Quebec, Canada) started the afternoon with a win (6-1) on Court No.3 to Laina Campos and Lucie Tuttle.
Fairfield then took the next two doubles matches as Gardner-Webb's No.1 tandem of junior
Emilia Roslund (Lund, Sweden) and sophomore
Emma Shasteen (Floda, Sweeden) lost (3-6) to the tandem of Sarah Liu and Maeve Cassidy.
The Runnin' Bulldogs No.2 doubles team of senior
Katie Watts (Haslet, Texas) and freshman
Milica Prokic (Belgrade, Serbia) fell 4-6 to the Stags Katarina Plumtree and Nicolette Loeffler.
Fairfield led 1-0 heading into the singles competition where the Runnin' Bulldogs got on a roll.
On Court No.3. Poulin (6-2, 6-1) prevailed over Loeffler.
Fyvie won on Court No.4 over Loeffler 6-2, 6-1.
Roslund clinched the match for the Dawgs on Court No. 2 with a 6-1, 7-5 victory over Plumtree.
Prokic defeated the Stags Lily Malinowski 6-3, 6-3, on court No.5 while Shasteen took care of business in three sets 5-7, 6-2, 10-7 vs Liu on Court No.1. Â
Watts won in three sets 3-6, 7-6 (5), 10-8, over Cassidy on Court No.6. to round a perfect singles competition for Gardner-Webb.
"We lost the doubles point, but then won all the singles matches" said Gardner-Webb women's tennis coach
Jim Corn. "It was a great effort and win over a well-coached team. The final score doesn't indicate how close the match was. I am proud of all my girls' competitiveness today. They all really went after it today."
Up Next — Gardner-Webb will be in action again on Thursday (3/7) when Asheville visits Webb Tennis Center to open Big South Conference play at 2PM. The Runnin' Bulldogs then visit Belmont Abbey on Friday (3/8).
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