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In the Crescent Bend
Stands our loved and noble Xavier,
Far her praises send.
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Wave her colors bear them onward
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Top-seeded Gold Nuggets to play Wildcats or Mariners
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May 7, 2013
Tournament bracket (PDF)
NEW ORLEANS — Top of the bracket to you,
Xavier Gold Nuggets.
Xavier University of Louisiana on Tuesday was awarded
the No. 1 seed for the 2013 NAIA Women's Tennis National Championship at Mobile, Ala.
The Gold Nuggets (17-7), No. 1 in the past three coaches polls after ranking
13th in the preseason, were one of eight teams to draw a first-round bye in
the 24-team, single-elimination event. Xavier will play in the second round
at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 15 against Indiana Wesleyan or Coastal Georgia.
The Wildcats and Mariners will meet in the first round on May 14.
Copeland-Cox Tennis Center will be the site of all
matches. All women's duals are scheduled for 1 p.m.
The appearance at nationals is the
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Xavier Women's Tennis at the
NAIA National Championship (5-6)
| Date (Day) |
Round |
Opponent |
W/L |
Score |
| May 17, 2004 (Mon.) |
1st |
Lee (Tenn.) |
W |
8-1 |
| May 18, 2004 (Tue.) |
2nd |
Auburn Montgomery |
L |
0-5 |
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| May 16, 2005 (Mon.) |
1st |
Indiana Southeast |
W |
9-0 |
| May 17, 2005 (Tue.) |
2nd |
Brenau |
L |
0-5 |
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| May 12, 2008 (Mon.) |
1st |
McKendree |
W |
7-2 |
| May 13, 2008 (Tue.) |
2nd |
Vanguard |
L |
1-5 |
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| May 12, 2009 (Tue.) |
1st |
Union (Ky.) |
W |
8-1 |
| May 13, 2009 (Wed.) |
2nd |
Berry |
L |
3-5 |
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| May 18, 2010 (Tue.) |
1st |
Indiana Wesleyan |
W |
6-3 |
| May 19, 2010 (Wed.) |
2nd |
Auburn Montgomery |
L |
0-5 |
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| May 15, 2012 (Tue.) |
1st |
Vanguard |
L |
3-6 |
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Nuggets' second
in a row and their seventh overall — all in the past nine seasons.
But this will be the first time that the XU women have a first-round bye.
The Nuggets are 5-1 in the first round at nationals and 0-5 in the second round.
A victory would make this the first XU women's team
in any sport to reach the NAIA quarterfinals. The Nuggets will need four
victories to win Xavier's first NAIA national team championship. The championship
round is scheduled for Saturday, May 18.
Junior Kourtney Howell, freshman Brion Flowers and
sophomore Amanda Materre are Xavier's top three players. Howell was sixth,
Flowers 31st and Materre 37th in the most recent Intercollegiate Tennis Association NAIA
singles rankings, and Howell and Flowers were the No. 1 doubles team.
Alan Green is in his 10th season as coach of XU's women's and men's teams.
The Gold Nuggets will enter the tournament with a nine-dual win streak, and
they're 10-0 this season against ranked NAIA opponents. They defeated
fifth-seeded William Carey and second-seeded Auburn Montgomery on consecutive
days in early April. Auburn Montgomery is the two-time defending NAIA champion and winner of
eight of the last nine titles and 10 of the last 13.
Xavier defeated Coastal Georgia 8-1 in the
AUM Invitational on March 9. Xavier and Indiana Wesleyan have not met since
the Nuggets won 6-3 in the opening round at nationals in 2010. In the coaches
poll announced Monday, Coastal Georgia was ranked 16th, and Indiana Wesleyan was 17th.
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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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