MOBILE, Ala. – The University of South Alabama women's tennis team lost just three games in doubles and won all five singles matches in straight sets to defeat Jackson State 7-0 Wednesday afternoon at the Bruce David Lubel Memorial Tennis Courts.

The Jaguars move to 11-1 on the year and the Tigers fall to 3-11.

DOUBLES
-Senior Alexandria Stiteler and Nikola Kohoutova started things off with a 6-1 win at No. 3, and senior Patricia Martins and sophomore Milka Pasanen clinched the doubles point shortly thereafter, 6-0 on court 1
-Sophomore Yu Fujioka and freshman Yurie Takanishi won 6-2 on court 2

SINGLES
-The Jaguars picked up their second point of the day via a walkover on court 6
-Junior Leslie Soto defeated Oni Jones 6-1, 6-2 at No. 3 and sophomore Nikola Kohoutova secured the match for the Jaguars with a 6-0, 6-0 whitewashing of Maria Martinez at No. 4
-Stiteler topped Lucia Solis 6-3, 6-2 at No. 1
-Fujioka edged Nina Zhang 7-5, 6-3 on court 2, and Pasanen closed out Lily Zhang 6-1, 6-2 on court 5

NOTES
-South Alabama now leads the series between the two schools 6-0; all six meetings have come since 2014
-Fujioka and Pasanen have won their last six singles matches; their win streak trails Martins' team-best nine-game unbeaten run
-The Jaguars are 28-4 at flights 4-6, including 10-0 at No. 6
-Stiteler and Kohoutova lead the team with seven doubles victories

QUOTES FROM COACH KEYSER
"We're just excited to get the reps in (today). We've missed quite a lot of court time, but today was perfect. I actually think we played a really good match; it was one of our better doubles matches in a while, and I could really see some progress in singles. We want to be trending upwards because the conference schedule is starting with a lot of pressure matches at the beginning. This time of the year, you want to get better; that's what the good teams do. Hopefully we're one of those teams that keeps getting better."

UP NEXT
The Jaguars will take an extended break before opening Sun Belt Conference play March 16 vs. UT Arlington.

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