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Nuggets 7-0 vs. ranked teams after beating Embry-Riddle
March 28, 2013
Results:
Men
Women
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Xavier University of
Louisiana's women's tennis team defeated Embry-Riddle (Fla.) 7-2 Thursday to
remain unbeaten this season against ranked NAIA opponents.
The Gold Nuggets, ranked eighth, are 11-7 overall but
7-0 against ranked teams. The XU women won against a top-10 team for the second
time ever and the first time in eight years. Embry-Riddle (6-8) is ranked
seventh and was the NAIA runner-up a year ago.
Embry-Riddle's second-ranked men defeated eighth-ranked
Xavier 8-1.
Kourtney Howell and Amanda Materre, both losers in
singles Wednesday in the Nuggets' victory against Northwood (Fla.), bounced
back with doubles and singles victories against Embry-Riddle. Materre and
Olivia West scored first in the dual with an 8-2 doubles victory against Ana
Gonzalez-Hoy and Meena Bennett. Howell and Brion Flowers, No. 12 in the ITA's
NAIA doubles rankings, followed with an 8-5 victory against fourth-ranked
Hui-I Huang and Kristina Marova.
The Nuggets won 5-of-6 singles matches, including
Howell's 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-4) victory against Huang — the reigning NAIA
Player of the Week — and Materre's 7-5, 6-1 decision over Paola Montero.
Freshman Vashni Balleste clinched the dual with her 6-3, 6-2 victory against
Bennett at No. 6.
Also winning for Xavier was Simone-Alyse Ewell in a
6-4, 7-6 (7-4) victory against Giovanna Tomiotto and Amber Brown in a 6-0, 6-1
decision over Gonzalez-Hoy.
Xavier is the first NAIA women's team since 2009 to
win at Embry-Riddle.
"The Nuggets put it all together today and played very
well. This is the best they played this season," XU coach Alan Green said.
"It shows what they are capable of when the entire team is involved in the
match — whether they are playing or cheering. We had great team spirit
today, and the girls fed off each other."
In the men's dual, Viktor Svoboda scored the lone point
for the Gold Rush (10-6). Svoboda won his eighth consecutive singles match, a
6-4, 6-3 decision against Miguel Lopez Gomez. Chris Freeman and Deni Zmak won
in doubles and singles for the Eagles (13-2), and Zmak clinched with his 6-1,
6-1 victory against Loic Didavi at the top singles flight.
"Embry-Riddle is, in my opinion, the best team in the
nation," Green said. "Our guys competed, but Embry-Riddle was just too much for
us today."
Embry-Riddle snapped Xavier's season-high four-dual win
streak. Four of the Gold Rush losses are to teams in the top seven in the most
recent coaches poll.
The Gold Nuggets finished 3-0 and the Gold Rush 2-1 in
their spring-break trip to Florida. Next duals for both will be at 3 p.m. on
April 5 — one week from Friday — at William Carey, whose women are
ranked second and men are sixth. The next XU home duals will start at 2 p.m. on
April 6 against Auburn Montgomery and its top-ranked men and third-ranked
women.
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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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