BOONE, N.C. – In its first home tennis match of the spring, App State played strong from start to finish in a 7-0 sweep of Lees-McRae on Sunday afternoon.
The Mountaineers (1-1) didn't drop a set against the Bobcats (0-3), one day after falling 6-1 to No. 2-ranked North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
"I think the girls did great," head coach
Ashleigh Antal said. "There was a lot of heart, a lot of fight, great energy this weekend. I'm really happy with the start."
Freshman
Savannah Dada-Mascoll was the first to finish her singles match at the Deer Valley Racquet Club with a dominating 6-1, 6-0 win over the Bobcats' Rhidaim Yang at No. 3.
Maggie Pate (6-1, 6-1) and
Helena Jansen (6-0, 6-1) followed with big victories at Nos. 2 and 1, respectively.
Ellie Murphy downed Pati Vedia Sanchez 6-4, 6-1, followed by
Virginia Poggi earning a win for the second straight day with a 6-3, 6-0 triumph over Begum Gumussoy.
Olwyn Ryan-Bovey closed out the match by beating Lina Ngassi Saquot 7-6, 6-3.
App State started the day by sweeping the doubles point. Jansen and Murphy teamed up to cruise to a 6-1 win on Court 1. Poggi and
Brooke Gruber secured a 6-2 win on Court 3, and Pate and Dada-Mascoll gutted out a 7-5 come-from-behind victory on Court 2.
The Mountaineers are on the road for the next seven nonconference matches before starting Sun Belt play with a March 11 date.
"Nonconference is really about competing and finding our range," Antal said. "Every match is going to be about finetuning and getting a little bit better so we're peaking when we go into conference. We have a lot of exciting nonconference matches coming up."
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