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ALMA MATER
In the Mississippi Valley,
In the Crescent Bend
Stands our loved and noble Xavier,
Far her praises send.
Refrain:
Wave her colors bear them onward
Gold and white so true
Hail to thee, all hail, dear Xavier
Hail, all hail, X.U.!
Xavier, ever be our guide
And lead us on the way,
Through life's journey, onward, upward
To the eternal day. (Refrain)
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Gold Rush, Gold Nuggets defeat NCAA D-I's Alcorn State
March 15, 2013
Results:
Men
Women
Facebook photos:
Men
Women
NEW ORLEANS — Viktor Svoboda defeated Vitali
Vasileuski 7-5, 6-0 at No. 4 singles Friday to clinch Xavier University of
Louisiana's 5-4 men's tennis victory against Alcorn State at the new
XU Tennis Center.
Kourtney Howell's 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 decision against
Kersten Vanem at No. 1 singles clinched Xavier's 6-3 women's victory against
Alcorn.
Both XU teams are ranked 10th in the NAIA. The Gold
Nuggets are 8-6 — they exceeded their victory total of a year ago, when
they were 7-22 — and the Gold Rush are 7-5. Both XU teams have won four
of their last five dual matches. Alcorn State's men are 2-7,
and the women are 2-8.
Loic Didavi and Kyle Montrel won for the Gold Rush in
doubles and singles. Howell and Brion Flowers did the same for the Gold
Nuggets.
The dual match victory was the Gold Nuggets' second of the
season against an NCAA Division I opponent — their most in one season
since doing it three times in 2009. The XU men also have two victories this
year against D-Is, one fewer than in 2012.
The Gold Nuggets and Lady Braves played their singles
matches first. Alcorn won 2-of-3 doubles matches.
Howell and Amanda Materre — a 6-4, 6-2 winner against
Arielle Buchmann at No. 3 — have four singles victories each
against NCAA Division I opponents this semester. Flowers, a freshman, won
6-1, 2-6, 6-1 against Viktoria Kozachuk at No. 2 after losing in three sets
in the previous two duals.
"The Nuggets played very well in singles, and we are
still looking for the right doubles combinations," XU coach Alan Green said,
Montrel, a freshman, beat Garry Amor 6-1, 6-4 at No. 3
for his sixth consecutive singles victory. Didavi defeated Ernesto Santillan 6-2, 6-1
at No. 1 for his fifth consecutive singles victory, and Svoboda's victory
was his fourth in a row.
Didavi and Montrel beat Santillan and Ivan Umnikov 8-6
to snap their two-match losing streak at No. 1 doubles. Svoboda and Nikita
Soifer then gave the Rush a 2-1 lead in the dual with their fifth consecutive
doubles victory, 9-8 (7-2) against Max Tkachenko and Bhavtaran Singh at No. 2.
"The Rush played yet another grueling match that came
down to the wire," Green said. "Every single match we won was so important.
We pulled out another close match in No. 2 doubles and if we don't do that,
we lose this match. Hats off to these guys for their toughness."
Both XU teams will travel to city rival University
of New Orleans for dual matches at 3 p.m. Wednesday. The next home duals for
the Rush and Nuggets will start at 2 p.m. April 6 against perennial NAIA power
Auburn Montgomery.
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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
1 Drexel Drive
Campus Box 92
New Orleans, LA 70125
(504) 520-7329 phone
(504) 520-7934 fax
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