CLINTON, S.C. – The Presbyterian College women's tennis team
dropped a Big South Conference match to Campbell on the road Wednesday, 6-1.
PC moves to 9-12 on the year and 0-6 in league play.
Campbell improves to 10-7 and 2-6.
Paige Oelke (Athens, Ga.) gave the Blue Hose their lone win,
gutting out a 7-6, 7-6 victory over Karolina Chernaya at the top flight. The
win gives Oelke her first Big South singles win of the season and 11th singles win of the year, one shy of the team lead.
The Blue Hose dropped a pair of doubles matches by 8-4
margins. Oelke and Patricia Alves (Campinas, Brazil) fell to Karolina Chernaya
and Borislava Nikolova, while Cara Caruso (Roswell, Ga.) and Lindsay Krause (Roswell,
Ga.) lost to Tamara Stanic and Katya Yegoreychenko. At the third flight, Lucia
Leahy (Charlotte, N.C.) and Caroline deLoach (Columbia, S.C.) dropped a contest
to Natasha Afridi and Anais Gomar, 8-1.
In singles play, Alves gave Nikolova a run at the first set
before falling, 7-6, 6-0, at the fourth flight. Caruso stumbled against Afridi
at the second flight, 6-1, 6-4, while Greer Ransom (Athens, Ga.) suffered a
setback to Stanic at No. 3, 6-0, 6-2.
At the fifth flight, deLoach dropped a battle to
Yegoreychenko, 6-4, 6-1, and Krause fell to Gomar at the sixth flight, 6-3,
6-4.
PC returns to the courts on Thursday with a road matchup at
UNC Asheville. The match is slated for a 2 p.m. start.
Singles competition
1. OELKE, Paige (PCW) def. CHERNAYA, Karolina (CAM-W) 7-6, 7-6
2. AFRIDI, Natasha (CAM-W) def. CARUSO, Cara (PCW) 6-1, 6-4
3. STANIC, Tamara (CAM-W) def. RANSOM, Greer (PCW) 6-0, 6-2
4. NIKOLOVA, Borislava (CAM-W) def. ALVES, Patricia (PCW) 7-6, 6-0
5. YEGOREYCHENKO, Katya (CAM-W) def. deLOACH, Caroline (PCW) 6-4, 6-1
6. GOMAR, Anais (CAM-W) def. KRAUSE, Lindsay (PCW) 6-3, 6-4
Doubles competition
1. CHERNAYA, Karolina/NIKOLOVA, Borislava (CAM-W) def. OELKE, Paige/ALVES, Patricia (PCW) 8-4
2. STANIC, Tamara/YEGOREYCHENKO, Katya (CAM-W) def. KRAUSE, Lindsay/CARUSO, Cara (PCW) 8-4
3. AFRIDI, Natasha/GOMAR, Anais (CAM-W) def. deLOACH, Caroline/LEAHY, Lucia (PCW) 8-1
