MATCH CENTRAL
No. 2 Embry-Riddle vs. NCAA II No. 9 Rollins
DATE: Tuesday, February 10, 2015
CITY: Winter Park, Fla.
SITE: Bert W. Martin Tennis Complex
TIME: 4 p.m.
SERIES: RC leads 10-3
LAST MEETING: ERAU won 5-4 (Feb. 18, 2014)
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FIRST SERVE
• Embry-Riddle is in its 16th season of competition
• Head Coach Dave Paschal is in his 11th season as the Eagles' head coach.
• Embry-Riddle and Rollins are meeting in women's tennis for the 14th time

ABOUT THE EAGLES
No. 2 Embry-Riddle women's tennis notched its second win of the 2015 season with a 6-3 defeat of NCAA II No. 30 Flagler on Feb. 5. The four-hour long match saw the Eagles win two of three doubles and four of six singles contests. In the match at No. 1 doubles, the ERAU tandem of Hui-I Huang and Anna Gotz fell behind 3-0 to start their match, but they rallied to win eight of the next nine games to top Esther Santiago and Mary Jo Nanti 8-4 and give the Eagles the first point of the day. The Eagles also won at No. 3 three doubles, but Flagler got a point back with a win a the No. 2 spot.
 
The Eagles earned wins at the sixth and fifth positions, and Huang clinched the match with a 6-2, 6-1 victory at the top spot.

ABOUT THE TARS
Tuesday's contest marks the first of the 2015 season for Rollins. The Tars, who posted a 17-7 record in 2014, will be without All-Sunshine State Conference honorees Elissa DeCampli and Ashley Rosenberg, but return Johanna Olsson, Taylor Brown and Shannon Etten, who is ranked No. 27 in the ITA singles rankings.

THE ERAU-RC SERIES
The Eagles and the Tars have faced each other in women's tennis 13 times. The last meeting was on Feb. 18, 2014 when the Eagles edged the Tars 5-4.

The Last Meeting
The Eagles swept all three doubles matches and won two singles points in the four-hour long contest to edge the Tars 5-4 on Feb. 18, 2014.

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.

BY THE NUMBERS
239 - All-time wins in ERAU Women's Tennis history
156 - Eagle victories under guidance of Head Coach Dave Paschal
43 - Conference wins in program history
11 - Seasons of competition with Dave Paschal at the helm
14 - NAIA National Tournament appearances
5 - Regular season conference championships
3 – Conference tournament titles
2 - The Eagles' current national ranking

EAGLES IN THE RANKINGS
The Eagles are ranked second in the NAIA Women's Tennis Coaches' Top 25 poll, marking the seventh consecutive season that ERAU Women's Tennis is ranked among the nation's top 10 in the preseason ratings. Two ERAU student-athletes are featured in the ITA/NAIA singles rankings as junior Hui-I Huang is ranked 13 and sophomore Anna Gotz is ranked 29th.