MOBILE, Ala. – After concluding the bulk of its non-conference schedule, the University of South Alabama women's tennis team will move on to its Sun Belt Conference slate, starting this weekend with matches against UT Arlington and Texas State.

MATCH INFORMATION
Dates: March 16-17, 2019
Opponents: UT Arlington (March 16), Texas State (March 17)
Host: South Alabama
Place: Bruce David Lubel Memorial Tennis Courts
Match Time: 10 a.m. (Sat. and Sun.)

ON THE COURT FOR THE JAGUARS
-Yu Fujioka (So., Funabashi, Japan, 7-1 singles, 6-3 doubles)
-Alexandria Stiteler (Sr., Bradenton, Fla., 8-2 singles, 7-3 doubles)
-Milka Pasanen (So., Pieksämäki, Finland, 7-1 singles, 6-2 doubles)
-Patricia Martins (Sr., Lisbon, Portugal, 9-0 singles, 6-2 doubles)
-Nikola Kohoutova (So., Kralupy nad Vltavou, Czech Republic, 8-2 singles, 8-3 doubles)
-Leslie Soto (Jr., Santiago, Chile, 4-4 singles, 3-0 doubles)
-Diana Monsalve (Jr., Bogota, Colombia, 5-0 singles, 4-0 doubles)
-Yurie Takanishi (Fr., Haracho, Japan, 2-5 singles, 8-3 doubles)

NOTES
-A win Saturday would tie the school record for consecutive home wins at 61; the streak dates back to the 2013 season
-The Jaguars are 11-1 for the second consecutive season
-South Alabama is 19-1 at the bottom two singles flights
-Martins is 9-0 this spring in singles and has a team- and conference-high nine wins
-Stiteler leads the Sun Belt at the No. 1 flight with an 8-2 record
-Kohoutova and Stiteler are 7-3 as a team in doubles
-USA has yet to lose to UTA (4-0) or Texas State (6-0)
-All four meetings with UT Arlington have been at the Sun Belt Championships; the Jags defeated the Mavericks 4-3 in the 2015 final
-UTA started the season 8-1 but has lost two of their last three outings
-The Mavericks' team of Carla Pons and Momoka Horiguchi are 8-0 at No. 2 doubles, tied for the best record in the Sun Belt
-Texas State's Ana Perez is second in the league behind Stiteler in win percentage at No. 1 at .778 (7-2)

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