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In the Crescent Bend
Stands our loved and noble Xavier,
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Rush, Nuggets beat ranked teams from Northwood (Fla.)
March 27, 2013
Results:
Men
Women
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. — Loic Didavi's three-set
singles victory gave Xavier University of Louisiana a 5-4 men's
tennis decision against Northwood (Fla.) on Wednesday.
The Gold Nuggets defeated Northwood 6-3.
All four teams are ranked in the NAIA. Xavier's men
and women are eighth, Northwood's women are 14th, and Northwood's men are 15th.
The XU men (10-5) rallied from 2-0 and 3-1 deficits
to increase their win streak to four duals, a season best. They've won seven of their last eight duals.
The Nuggets (10-7) have won six of their last eight and are 6-0 this season
against ranked NAIA opponents.
Didavi dropped a first-set tiebreaker 7-0 to
Alvaro Iturriaga but won the next two sets 6-2, 6-3. Didavi has eight
consecutive singles victories and is 5-0 this semester in split-set matches.
"What can I say about how our guys competed today?"
XU coach Alan Green said. "Northwood is very good and could have easily won
this match. Today Loic was the guy who gutted out a victory for us when it
was on the line."
Also with an eight-match win streak are
Nikita Soifer and Viktor Svoboda, who gave Xavier its only doubles point
with an 8-6 victory against David Cathalina and Nikita Borodatov. Soifer
beat Guilherme Azambuja 6-0, 6-2 in singles, and Svoboda improved his
win streak to seven with a 6-3, 6-1 decision against Borodatov.
Scoring the other Gold Rush point was Kyle Montrel, a 6-1, 6-2 winner against
Cathalina.
The Gold Rush have five victories this season against
teams in the current NAIA top 25.
In the women's dual, the Gold Nuggets won for the
first time in two years despite singles losses by Kourtney Howell and Amanda
Materre. Picking up the slack included freshman Brion Flowers and sophomore
transfer Olivia West, both winners in doubles and singles.
In doubles, Flowers and Howell defeated
Rose Bellevue and Adelaide Wood 8-1, and West and Materre defeated
Julia Ferraz and Melanie Snowberger 8-4. Flowers beat Bellevue 6-0, 6-0
in singles, and West clinched the dual with her 0-6, 6-2, 6-0 decision
against Snowberger. Also rallying from a first-set deficit was Amber Brown,
who defeated Ferraz 1-6, 6-2, 6-3.
The Nuggets' other singles winner was Simone-Alyse
Ewell, who beat Livia Toth 6-3, 6-3.
"Our women got some good production from our depth,
which was much needed because our top of the lineup has been carrying
us for the most part," Green said.
Justyna Wojcik, No. 7 in the ITA's NAIA singles
rankings, defeated Kourtney Howell, who is eighth, 7-5, 7-5.
Northwood's men are 9-4, and the women are 7-5.
Both XU teams will conclude their Florida trip with
duals at Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach. Embry-Riddle's men are ranked second
in the NAIA, and the women are seventh.
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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
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