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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Their first attempt to play each other was cut short due to a torrential downpour last week, but on Tuesday, the women's tennis teams from Embry-Riddle and Rollins were finally able to complete their match under blue skies at the Crotty Tennis Complex. The Eagles, ranked seventh in the NAIA, swept all three doubles matches and won two singles points in the four-hour long contest to edge the Tars 5-4. With the win, the Eagles even their record at 2-2, while the NCAA II No. 9 Tars move to 2-1 on the year.
Doubles play saw the top-ranked duo of
Kristina Marova and
Hui-I Huang dispatch Elissa DeCampli and Shannon Etten 8-3 at the top doubles spot. The freshman team of
Paula Ortiz Couder and
Eva Vilar extended the Eagle advantage to 2-0 with their 8-6 victory over Ashley Loft and Johanna Olsson at the third position. It took close to 90 minutes to decide the match at No. 3 doubles and in the end, it was ERAU's Anna Götz and
Paola Montero who topped Carli Davis and Marianna Salvador 8-5 to complete the doubles sweep and give the Eagles a 3-0 lead heading into singles play.
Etten got the first point of the evening for the Tars at No. 3 singles when she topped Marova 6-0, 6-3. The next match off the court was at the fourth spot where Vilar put the Eagles up 4-1 with a 6-2, 6-2 defeat of Davis.
At the sixth position, Ortiz Couder took a 3-0 lead in the first set, but Olsson bounced back to move ahead 4-3. Ortiz Couder regained her focus and won the next three games to take the set 6-4. In the second set, Olsson led 5-4 and had the chance to serve for the match, but Ortiz Couder registered a break to tie things up at 5-5, then held serve and broke Olsson again to score the clincher for ERAU (7-5).
Rollins won the remaining singles points as Salvador held off Montero (7-5, 7-5), Rosenberg topped Götz 6-4, 6-4 and No. 40 DeCampli bested No. 9 Huang 7-5, 7-5.
The Eagles will be back in action at 3:30 p.m. on Friday when they host conference foe Southeastern at the Crotty Tennis Complex.
