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No. 2 Eagles Roll Past Warriors 9-0 to Win Conference Crown

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The Embry-Riddle women's tennis team wrapped the 2011 Sun Conference regular season on Wednesday with a 9-0 victory over 24th-ranked Webber International (12-6, 3-3). The second-ranked Eagles shared the regular season crown with SCAD Savannah and Northwood in 2010, but Wednesday's win marked the first time since head Coach Dave Paschal's first season with the Eagles in 2005, that the Eagles claimed the title outright. ERAU finished with a perfect 6-0 record in the league and are now 17-3 overall. They will hold the No. 1 seed in the four-team Sun Conference tournament, which gets underway on Apr. 15.

The Eagles easily breezed through doubles, dropping just one game in three doubles matches. Kristina Márová and Paola Montero teamed up for an 8-0 win over Anna Culaba and Jeanette Hicks at No. 3 doubles, while Josefine Ström and Caroline Nilsson downed Nathalia Chaddad and Leticia Tomb by the same margin at the second position. Rocío Frej Vitallé and Ekaterina Kamendova defeated Laura Nowak and Helen Perry 8-1 at the top spot to give the Blue and Gold a 3-0 lead moving into singles play.

Márová made quick work of Perry at No. 3 singles, extending the Eagle lead to 4-0 with a 6-0, 6-0 shutout. Ström scored the clincher with a 6-1, 6-0 defeat of Tomb at the fourth position and was followed by Kamendova who registered a 6-1, 6-0 win over Chaddad in her third match of the season at the top singles spot.

Frej Vitallé earned her 20th win of the season with a 6-0, 6-4 win over Nowak, while Nilsson topped Culaba 6-2, 6-3 at No. 6 and Montero secured the team shutout with her third perfect score in a row, downing Hicks 6-0, 6-0 at the sixth spot.

The Eagles will conclude regular season play on Saturday when they travel to Georgia to take on NCAA II Valdosta State. Match time is slated for 1 p.m.
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