Embry-Riddle sweeps Xavier tennis teams
For immediate release . . . March 10, 2007

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The good news for the Xavier University of Louisiana women's tennis team was defeating three of the NAIA's top 40 singles players Saturday.

The bad news was that those triumphs were not enough to carry the No. 9 Gold Nuggets to a dual-match victory against No. 7 Embry-Riddle. Xavier won only one other match and lost 5-4 to the Eagles.

Embry-Riddle's fourth-ranked men defeated Xavier 8-1.

Xavier (7-2) lost two of the three doubles matches but roared into the lead when the top half of its singles lineup, Dominique Bell, Yuliem Dominguez and Angelina Callis, produced straight-set victories. Bell, ranked 14th in singles, defeated NAIA No. 9 Hana Im 6-3, 6-2. Dominguez beat No. 28 Natalie Anaya 6-2, 6-3. And Callis defeated No. 40 Lindsey Kurtz 7-5, 6-2. But the Nuggets produced no more victories, even after Colleen McArthur and Jihanna Mughnee won the first sets of their matches.

It was the the second victory in three days for Embry-Riddle (5-5) against a top-10 team. The Eagles defeated No. 10 Brenau 5-4 Thursday.

Xavier (5-5) scored its only point of the men's match when Vusumzi Kempele defeated Blake Hollis 6-4, 6-2 at No. 5 singles. But the Eagles (9-1) dropped only one other set in the dual and cruised to their eighth consecutive victory.

Xavier will conclude its Florida trip with men's and women's duals at 10 a.m. CDT Sunday against Berry at Daytona Beach. Berry's men are ranked eighth, and the women are seventh.

Results:
Women
Embry-Riddle 5, Xavier 4
At Daytona Beach, Fla.
Singles
No. 1 — Dominique Bell (XU) d. Hana Im (ER) 6-3, 6-2.
No. 2 — Yuliem Dominguez (XU) d. Natalie Anaya (ER) 6-2, 6-3.
No. 3 — Angelina Callis (XU) d. Lindsey Kurtz (ER) 7-5, 6-2.
No. 4 — Kerinn Meisenbach (ER) d. Colleen McArthur (XU) 6-7 (7-5), 6-1, 6-3.
No. 5 — Marga Rico Jimenez (ER) d. Jihanna Mughnee (XU) 2-6, 6-1, 6-0.
No. 6 — Sara Abraúl (ER) d. Alexandra Broussard (XU) 6-3, 6-4.

Doubles
No. 1 — Angelina Callis-Yuliem Dominguez (XU) d. Lindsey Kurtz-Natalie Anaya 8-4.
No. 2 — Hana Im-Kerinn Meisenbach (ER) d. Dominique Bell-Colleen McArthur (XU) 8-4.
No. 3 — Marga Rico Jimenez-Anna Haller (ER) d. Alexandra Broussard-Jihanna Mughnee (XU) 8-3.

Records: Xavier 7-2, Embry-Riddle 5-5.

Men
Embry-Riddle 8, Xavier 1
At Daytona Beach, Fla.
Singles
No. 1 — Konstantin Lazarov (ER) d. Terry Richardson (XU) 6-1, 6-2.
No. 2 — Carlos Bes (ER) d. Mario Myles (XU) 6-1, 6-0.
No. 3 — Tomoaki Yasuda (ER) d. Miroslav Vukicevic (XU) 6-4, 6-2.
No. 4 — Luke Maricic (ER) d. Cameron Knowles (XU) 6-3, 6-1.
No. 5 — Vusumzi Kempele (XU) d. Blake Hollis (ER) 6-4, 6-2.
No. 6 — Michael Weiss (ER) d. Thomas Fugate (XU) 5-7, 6-2, 1-0 (11-9).

Doubles
No. 1 — Mislav Hizak-Konstantin Lazarov (ER) d. Mario Myles-Terry Richardson (XU) 8-1.
No. 2 — Carlos Bes-Sean Winbauer (ER) d. Miroslav Vukicevic-Cameron Knowles (XU) 8-6.
No. 3 — Tomoaki Yasuda-Luke Maricic (ER) d. Vusumzi Kempele-Thomas Fugate (XU) 8-3.

Records: Xavier 5-5, Embry-Riddle 9-1.