CONWAY, S.C. – The Presbyterian College women's tennis team fell to the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers on the road Sunday, 7-0.
PC moves to 8-15-1 on the year and 0-8 in the Big South Conference. The Blue Hose next travel to UNC Asheville for the regular season finale on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. Coastal Carolina improves to 16-4 on the year and 4-2 in League action.
The Blue Hose picked up a doubles win at the top flight with Greer Ransom (Athens, Ga.) and Courtney Gardiner (Powder Springs, Ga.) edging Kourtney Kowal and Honami Yazawa, 8-7. PC nearly took the point and the No. 3 match but Marie Babayan and Amanda Malatek squeezed past Caroline deLoach (Columbia, S.C.) and Kayla Stanford (Canton, Ga.), 8-5. At No. 2, Libby Scott and Dominque De Wit topped Patricia Alves (Campinas, Brazil) and Caroline Ferrari (Rome, Ga.), 8-3.
In singles play, Ferrari forced a third-set tiebreaker against Delay but the Chanticleer managed to slip by, 6-1, 2-6, 10-8.
Babayan topped deLoach at No. 5 and Lucia Leahy (Charlotte, N.C.) fell to Malatek at No. 6 by 6-1, 6-2 results in each match. At No. 3, Alves fell to Kowal, 6-4, 6-4, and Scott took a close first set from Ransom at No. 1 before winning the second set, 7-5, 6-2. Coastal's last win came at No. 2 in a retirement.
Singles competition
1. SCOTT, Libby (COASTAL) def. RANSOM, Greer (PCW) 7-5, 6-2
2. YAZAWA, Honami (COASTAL) def. GARDINER, Courtney (PCW) 3-2, retired
3. KOWAL, Kourtney (COASTAL) def. ALVES, Patricia (PCW) 6-4, 6-4
4. DELAY, Romane (COASTAL) def. FERRARI, Caroline (PCW) 6-1, 2-6, 10-8
5. BABAYAN, Marie (COASTAL) def. deLOACH, Caroline (PCW) 6-1, 6-2
6. MALATEK, Amanda (COASTAL) def. LEAHY, Lucia (PCW) 6-1, 6-2
Doubles competition
1. RANSOM, Greer/GARDINER, Courtney (PCW) def. KOWAL, Kourtney/YAZAWA, Honami (COASTAL) 8-7
2. SCOTT, Libby/DE WIT, Dominique (COASTAL) def. ALVES, Patricia/FERRARI, Caroline (PCW) 8-3
3. BABAYAN, Marie/MALATEK, Amanda (COASTAL) def. deLOACH, Caroline/STANFORD, Kayla (PCW) 8-5