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Trojans Down Coastal; Advance to Semifinals
4/21/2017 12:59:00 PM | Tennis (W)
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – The four-seeded Troy women's tennis team defeated the five seed Coastal Carolina 4-2 on Friday at the Sun Belt Conference Championships at City Park/Pepsi Tennis Center in New Orleans.
Coastal Carolina won the early doubles point to take a 1-0 lead. The Chanticleers defeated Troy on court two, but the Trojans came back as Efriliya Herlina and Jiayuan Xue won 6-3 on court three to tie it up. The doubles point came down to Sanae Ohta and Nancy Karaky on court one. Troy fought hard, but Coastal defeated the Trojans 7-6 in a tiebreak to earn the point.
In singles, Coastal jumped out to another early lead as they took the point on court three to go up 2-0. Xue and Herlina won the next two matches 6-1, 6-2 and 6-4, 6-0, respectively, to tie up the match. Hannah Seizer notched a 6-2, 6-1 win on court two, and Ohta clinched the match on court one in three sets with a 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 win over the Chanticleers.
Troy will face the No. 1 seed, ULM, who defeated Texas State in the quarterfinals, on Saturday at 10 a.m. The game will be broadcast on ESPN 3. Radio and live stats will also be available.
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FULL RESULTS
Singles
1. Ohta, Sanae (TROY) def. Cox, Rylie (COASTAL) 6-3, 2-6, 7-5
2. Seizer, Hannah (TROY) def. Wall, Natalie (COASTAL) 6-2, 6-1
3. Babayan, Marie (COASTAL) def. Karaky, Nancy (TROY) 6-2, 6-1
4. Xue, Jiayuan (TROY) def. Bondar, Sara (COASTAL) 6-1, 6-2
5. Herlina, Efriliya (TROY) def. Delay, Romane (COASTAL) 6-4, 6-0
6. Rodriguez, Alicia (TROY) vs. Khomchenko, Maria (COASTAL) 1-6, 6-4, 4-2, unfinished
Doubles
1. Babayan, Marie/Bondar, Sara (COASTAL) def. Karaky, Nancy/Ohta, Sanae (TROY) 7-6 (7-5)
2. Cox, Rylie/Wall, Natalie (COASTAL) def. Rodriguez, Alicia/Seizer, Hannah (TROY) 6-1
3. Herlina, Efriliya/Xue, Jiayuan (TROY) def. Campbell, Brooke/Delay, Romane (COASTAL) 6-3
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