RESULTS (Jackson State)
RESULTS (Xavier, La.)

MOBILE, Ala. – The University of South Alabama women's tennis team picked up a pair of home wins Saturday as they started their spring season at the Bruce David Lubel Memorial Tennis Courts.
 
USA started off with a 6-1 victory over Jackson State and finished with a 7-0 win against Xavier University of Louisiana.
 
JACKSON STATE
-The Jaguars opened strong by taking the doubles point.
-Maxine Palmen and Patricia Martins swept Nina Zhang and Daria Butorina 6-0 on court 3.
-Alexandria Stiteler and Nikola Kohoutova clinched the doubles point by defeating Oni Jones and Ariel Dickson 6-1 at No. 2.
-Yu Fujioka and Alina Zolotareva finished doubles with a 6-4 win over Tyler Smith and Lucia Solis at No. 1.
-In singles, Kohoutova opened with a 6-0, 6-0 victory against Dickson on court 5, and Martins downed Jones 6-0, 6-1 at No. 4.
-Soto secured the win for the Jags by dropping Butorina 6-1, 6-0 on court 6.
-Zolotareva downed Zhang 6-1, 6-2 at No. 2, and at the No. 3 spot, Fujioka bested Solis 6-3, 6-3.
-At No. 1, Palmen fell to Smith 7-6 (7-5), 6-3.
 
XAVIER (La.)
-In doubles, the Jags took two decisions to earn the doubles point.
-Martins and Palmen defeated Farah Baklouti and Yi Chen Pao 6-2 on court 1, and Fujioka and Zolotareva won 6-3 over Charlene Goreau and Manon Bonada at No. 2.
-In singles, Palmen started with a 6-0, 6-0 victory against Baklouti at No. 2, and Fujioka put the Jaguars up 3-0 by beating Bonada 6-0, 6-1 on court 3.
-Zolotareva clinched the win for USA by defeating Goreau 6-2, 6-2 at No. 1.
-In other singles action, Kohoutova won a 6-1, 7-5 decision against Pao on court 4.
 
NOTES
-The Jaguars improved to 2-0 on the year.
-The win against Jackson State marks the fifth straight victory against the Tigers.
-Xavier had to forfeit singles matches at Nos. 5 and 6 because they did not have enough eligible players.
-Next for the Jags is another double header against Grambling on Jan. 27 at home.
 
QUOTES FROM COACH KEYSER
"It was a good day. It's nice to get plenty of matches in, especially with the weather being shaky this past week. I think we're off to a good start. Any win is important. We've got a lot of new players in there. It's nice for them to get their first wins, and they definitely passed my test. I don't think you need to know a lot about tennis to see that they're all good. We've just got to keep getting better and fully become better match players."
 
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