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Women's Tennis Advances to Semifinals in Big South Tournament

       

Women's Tennis Advances to Semifinals in Big South Tournament

Defeats Radford, 4-0

ROCK HILL, S.C. – The second-seeded Coastal Carolina women's tennis team (16-5) won the doubles point and three singles matches as the Lady Chanticleers defeated Radford University 4-0, in the third match of the 2005 Big South Women’s Tennis Championship at the Winthrop Memorial Courts, on Thursday afternoon, Apr. 14

Those that recorded the victories in the three singles matches for the Lady Chants, are junior Virginie Dinh ( Maisons Alberta, France/Sophia), sophomores Sarize Coetzee (Bloemfontein, South Africa/Oranje Meisieskool (Texas Tech)) and Nicole Lemmerer (Bad Mittendorf, Austria/Borg Bad Aussee). All the singles matches were won 6-0, 6-0. The team of reigning Big South Women's Player of the Year, senior Marie Matrka (Wilmington, Ohio) and Dinh won the first doubles match, 8-3. While the final doubles match was won for Coastal by Coetzee and junior Rosemary Younger (Atlanta, Ga./Marist), 8-0.


Coastal Carolina will play the winner of the Birmingham-Southern/UNC Asheville match in the second semifinal Friday at 1:00 pm at the Winthrop Memorial Courts.

RESULTS:
Coastal Carolina 4, Radford University 0

Singles competition:
1. Marie Matrka (Coastal) vs. Camila Noldin (Radford) DNF
2. Virginie Dinh (Coastal) def. Daniela Milano (Radford), 6-0, 6-0
3. Petra Jantti (Coastal) vs. Caroline Downs (Radford), DNF
4. Sofie Ahlberg (Coastal) vs. Ashton Downs (Radford), DNF
5. Sarize Coetzee (Coastal) def. Cassandra Price (Radford) 6-0, 6-0
6. Nicole Lemmerer (Coastal) def. Jessica Nixon (Radford) 6-0, 6-0

Doubles competition:
1. Marie Matrka/Virginie Dinh (Coastal) def. Daniela Milano/Ashton Downs (Radford) 8-3
2. Petra Jantti/Sofie Ahlberg (Coastal) vs. Camila Noldin/Caroline Downs (Radford), DNF
3. Sarize Coetzee/Rosemary Younger (Coastal) def. Cassandra Price/Jessica Nixon (Radford) 8-