Tennis Falls to Sun Belt Champs on Senior Day

Boone, N.C. – App State Tennis dropped its Senior Day regular-season finale to 66th-ranked Old Dominion 6-1 on Saturday. 
 
The Mountaineers will head to Rome, Ga., for the Sun Belt Tournament next week. 
 
Taya Powell picked up the lone win for App State (12-9, 6-5 SBC) after defeating Old Dominion's Allison Isaacs 6-1, 7-6 [7-3] at No. 3 singles for the seventh singles win of her freshman season.
 
Savannah Dada-Mascoll's outstanding 16-match winning streak came to an end after a back-and-forth match that went the distance with No. 118-ranked Sofia Johnson at the top singles position.
 
ODU (14-5, 10-0 SBC), which had clinched the Sun Belt regular-season title before Saturday's match, claimed two out of three wins in doubles play while securing wins in five of the six singles matches to claim victory. 
 
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App State will start Sun Belt Tournament play on Thursday, April 25. The seventh-seeded Mountaineers will face the 10th-seeded James Madison in the second round of the tournament. The match is set for a 2 p.m. start time.
 
The 2023-24 tennis season is presented by Hound Ears Club. 
 
Results vs #66 Old Dominion
 
Doubles

• Sofia Johnson/Lidiia Rasskouskaia (ODU) def. Savannah Dada-Mascoll/Taya Powell (App) 6-2
• Alexandra Viktorovich/Ulyana Romanova (ODU) def. Olwyn Ryan-Bovey/Ellie Murphy (App) 6-4
• Naledi Manuybe/Maggie Pate (App) def. Allison Isaacs/Kira Matushkina (ODU) 6-4

Singles

• #118 Sofia Johnson (ODU) def. Savannah Dada-Mascoll (App) 2-6, 7-5, 6-4
• Alexandra Viktorovich (ODU) def. Olwyn Ryan-Bovey (App) 6-4, 6-4
• Taya Powell (App) def. Allison Isaacs (ODU) 6-1, 7-6 [7-3]
• Lidiia Rasskouskaia (ODU) def. Maggie Pate (App) 6-4, 6-3
• Kira Matushkina (ODU) def. Naledi Manyube (App) 6-4, 6-3
• Ulyana Romanova (ODU) def. Brooke Gruber (App) 6-2, 6-0