Thursday, April 14, 2005
Contact: Stan Cole
Campbell Advances In Atlantic Sun
Championship With 4-0 Victory Over Belmont
DeLAND, FLA. -- Campbell won the doubles point, then did not
lose a set in singles competition while positing a 4-0 victory over
Belmont Thursday in the first round of the Atlantic Sun Conference
Women's Tennis Championship.
After
defeating Belmont for the second time in a month, the
seventh-seeded Lady Camels (7-13) will face second-seeded Georgia
State on Friday at 2:00 p.m.
On Thursday, Campbell's top doubles team of Georgiana Marta and
Scarlet Alfonzo posted an 8-2 victory over Belmont's April Bradley
and Katie Rhodes. The Camels secured the doubles point with an 8-5
win at number three where Iva Stojancev and Kathleen Rollet topped
Belmont's Burgandy Moss and Shivani Oberoi 8-5.
Leading 1-0 after doubles play, the Camels locked up the dual
match with straight sets victories at the third, fourth and fifth
singles posts.
Freshman Nina Surviladze downed Bradley 6-3, 6-3 at number
three, while Stojancev eased past Oberoi 6-1, 6-2 at number four.
Rollet clipped Rhodes 6-3, 6-4 at the fifth position.
The remaining three singles matches were halted after Campbell
secured the clinching dual point.
Atlantic Sun Conference
Women's Tennis Championship First Round
Campbell 4, Belmont 0
Singles
1. MARTA, Georgiana (CAM) vs. JOHANSSON, Linda (BEL)
unfinished
2. ALFONZO, Scarlet (CAM) vs. CONYER, Elizabeth (BEL)
unfinished
3. SURVILADZE, Nina (CAM) def. BRADLEY, April 6-3, 6-3
4. STOJANCEV, Iva (CAM) def. OBEROI, Shivani 6-1, 6-2
5. ROLLET, Kathleen (CAM) def. RHODES, Katie 6-3, 6-4
6. BATKIEWICZ, Stacey (CAM) vs. MOSS, Burgandy (BEL) unfinished
Doubles
1. MARTA, Georgiana/ALFONZO, Scarlet (CAM) def. BRADLEY,
April/RHODES, Katie (BEL) 8-2
2. JOHANSSON, Linda/CONYER, Elizabeth (BEL) def. SURVILADZE,
Nina/BATKIEWICZ, Stacey (CAM) 8-4
3. STOJANCEV, Iva/ROLLET, Kathleen (CAM) def. MOSS,
Burgandy/OBEROI, Shivani (BEL) 8-5
Records: Campbell 7-13, Belmont 8-13