ATLANTA – After taking the first three points, the University of South Alabama women's tennis team fell 4-3 to Coastal Carolina Saturday at the Blackburn Tennis Center.
 
DOUBLES
-Junior Patricia Martins (Lisbon, Portugal) and freshman Milka Pasanen (Pieksamaki, Finland) defeated Iryna Vardanian and Natalie Wall 6-2 on court 1.
-Junior Alina Zolotareva (Barnaul, Russia) and freshman Nikola Kohoutova (Kralupy Nad Vltavou) clinched the doubles point for USA with a 7-5 victory over Jessie Mount and Rylie Cox at No. 3.
 
SINGLES
-Junior Alexandria Stiteler (Bradenton, Fla.) ranked No. 110 by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, started singles by dropping Vardanian 6-3, 6-1 on court 1, and freshman Yu Fujioka gave the Jaguars a 3-0 lead by defeating Somer Dalla-Bona 6-3, 6-0 at No. 3.
-On court 2, Zolotareva fell 7-5, 7-5 to Cox, and Wall rallied to beat Martins 1-6, 6-4, 6-2 at No. 5.
-Coastal Carolina tied it 3-3 when Mount won 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 against Kohoutova on court 6.
-Sara Bondar scored the clincher with a 6-1, 4-6, 7-5 win over Palmen at No. 4.
 
NOTES
-The loss snaps an 11-match win streak for the Jaguars. South Alabama drops to 16-2 on the year, while Coastal Carolina improves to 15-5.
-Fujioka is undefeated in singles this season at 17-0, and she holds a 9-4 doubles record.
-Stiteler improved to 14-1 in singles this spring, and she has won her last eight contests.
-Martins was handed her first loss in singles this spring as she drops to 10-1.
-Up next, the Jags are set to take on Georgia State Sunday at 8 a.m. at the Piedmont Park in Atlanta.
-South Alabama has a 12-6 series lead over Georgia State, including a 4-2 win in their last meeting.
-The two teams split matches last season, but the Jaguars came out on top during the semifinals of the Sun Belt Conference Championships.
 
QUOTES FROM HEAD COACH KEYSER
"This was a tough and borderline disappointing loss at this stage of the season. It's not very often a team will squander a 3-0 lead in matches and have a comeback of that magnitude, but that's the nature of sports and unfortunately, we ended up on the wrong side of this one. I definitely feel like we gave this one away today, and that's frustrating. But we need to have a short memory and get ready for a big match tomorrow."
 
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