May 16, 2005

Women's tennis bounced from NAIA national tournament

MOBILE, Ala. -- The University of Mobile (14-5) was eliminated from the women’s tennis NAIA national tournament with 7-2 loss to Lewis & Clark State College Monday afternoon at the Mobile Tennis Center in Mobile, Alabama.

Mobile, which ends their regular season at 14-5, jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead early in the match when the doubles pair of Margot Wallace and Tiffany Williams won their match on court number one, 8-6.

Trailing 5-3, Wallace and Williams made a furious comeback to win five of the next six games to take the match and give Mobile a 1-0 lead.

However, the team of Tiffany Crenshaw and Maria Aguirre as well as the team of Lindsey McDaniel and Cristen Gracey both dropped 8-3 decisions on courts two and three as Lewis & Clark pulled ahead 2-1 going into singles action.

The Rams needed to win four of the six singles matches in order to advance to the second round and unfortunately for Mobile, that wouldn’t be the case.

However, the Rams would get one victory in singles action as Williams defeated Maria Resende 4-6, 6-2, 10-8 on court number two for the Rams only singles victory.

Lewis & Clark State College will move on to the second round where they will face Shorter College, tomorrow, May 17 at 1 p.m. at the Mobile Tennis Center.

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