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Brown wins opener, but rough start for XU in UNO tourney
September 21, 2012
Results:
Men
Women
NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana's
Amber Brown rallied for a 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 victory Friday against McNeese
State's Lara Pujol in the Big Easy Tennis Classic at the University of New Orleans.
It was the one of two XU victories on a day when two seeded
Gold Rush players and two seeded Gold Nuggets lost their opening matches.
Three XU singles players began their collegiate careers with losses.
"Our focus today was to just compete and get the
first-match jitters out of the way," said 10th-year XU coach Alan Green.
"We will be fine."
Brown, the Nuggets' No. 3 women's singles player this past
season, came back against the Cowgirls' No. 2 player of a year ago. The victory occurred
in the round of 16 in the second flight.
"I'm looking for good things from Amber Brown this
season," Green said of the junior from Decatur, Ga., who five months ago
won three consecutive singles matches to help the Gold Nuggets win an NAIA
unaffiliated group tournament and receive an automatic bid to nationals.
Jennifer Dien of Southern Illinois eliminated
Brown in the quarterfinals, 6-2, 7-6 (7-1).
The other XU victory came in the women's doubles round of 32. Kourtney
Howell, a second-team NAIA All-American this past season, and freshman Brion Flowers
defeated Troy's Anja Cosovic and Brooke Durden 8-1.
The only other XU player to win a set was junior
Amir Rahbar, who lost 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to UNO's Vinay Kamineni in the round of
16 in the second flight of men's singles.
In other XU matches:
• Nikita
Soifer, seeded fourth in the men's singles first flight, lost his collegiate debut 6-2, 6-1 to
UNO's Abdelrahman Zaki.
• Second-seeded Viktor Svoboda
lost 6-4, 6-1 to South Alabama's Blake Gregor in the quarterfinals of the
men's singles second flight.
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Howell lost 6-3, 6-2 to
Troy's Lyubov Dorofeeva in the round of 16 of the women's singles first flight.
Howell was seeded fourth. Flowers lost 6-0, 6-0
to Troy's Karoline Grymel in the quarterfinals.
• The Gold
Nuggets were 0-4 in the women's singles third flight. Nicole DeLoach, seeded sixth,
lost 6-0, 6-0 to Troy's Cosovic. Jordyn Goody lost 6-2, 7-5 to Lamar's
Kanda Borgononi. Vashni Balleste lost 6-3, 6-1 to Cosovic in
Balleste's collegiate debut. And Olivia West, a sophomore transfer from
Centenary (La.), lost her XU debut in a 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) decision against Nicholls
State's Emma Pitre.
•
Anita Lee and Ariadna Cairo Baza of Southern
Illinois beat West and Goody 8-1 in the women's doubles round of 32.
The tournament will continue Saturday and conclude
Sunday at UNO's University Tennis Center. Many of the XU men and women will
play consolation matches.
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The Xavier Gold Rush and Gold Nuggets compete in Division I of the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) as a member of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC).
Xavier fields men's teams in basketball, cross country, tennis and track and field and women's teams in basketball, cross country, tennis, track and field and volleyball.
Department of Intercollegiate Athletics
Xavier University of Louisiana
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Campus Box 92
New Orleans, LA 70125
(504) 520-7329 phone
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