MOBILE, Ala. – Yurie Takanishi and Leslie Soto each won both their singles and doubles matches Friday to help lead the University of South Alabama to a 6-1 women's tennis victory over Xavier (La.) at the Bruce David Lubel Memorial Tennis Courts.

Takanishi and partner Milka Pasanen secured the doubles point for the Jaguars, then she doubled the lead by recording the first singles victory of the afternoon.  Soto dropped just two games in three sets on the day, teaming with Cami Moreno for a 6-1 doubles victory while winning 6-0, 6-1 in singles play.

South Alabama 6, Xavier (La.) 1

DOUBLES
-Lailaa Bashir and Angela Charles-Alfred started doubles play with a 6-2 win over the pairing of Yu Fujioka and Nikola Kohoutova at No. 1.
-At No. 3, Moreno and Soto earned a 6-1 victory over Lacee Ancar and Angelica De Vincenzis.
-Takanishi and Pasanen defeated Farah Baklouti and Yi Chen Pao 6-4 on the No. 2 court to give South the doubles point.

SINGLES
-Takanishi began singles action by beating De Vincenzis at No. 4, 6-2, 6-1.
-Kohoutova then earned a three-set victory — 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 — over Baklouti on the No. 3 court.
-The Gold Nuggets kept the match alive after Bashir earned a 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 win at No. 2 over Moreno.
-Fujioka clinched for South at the No. 1 position after defeating Charles-Alfred 6-1, 6-7 (6-8), 6-3.
-The match concluded with Soto winning 6-0, 6-1 over Ancar on the No. 6 court followed by Diana Monsalve's 6-4, 6-4 win at no. 5 over Pao.

NOTES
-USA is now 5-3 after winning four of five matches at home the last two weeks.
-The Gold Nuggets fell for the first time in the spring.
-Kohoutova's six straight singles wins in singles is the longest active streak on the team.
-Takanishi and Pasanen have won each of their last four doubles matches.
-Moreno and Soto have gone 4-0 since being paired together prior to the Jags' Feb. 1 win over UAB.

THEY SAID IT
Head Coach Jaco Keyser
On the match against Xavier (La.): "It was a carbon copy of last year, it was a tight doubles point and real competitive in the top three [singles] spots; that's what we knew we were going to get into.  I thought we did some good things today — there was a lot of structure in singles — but we have to try and executive for longer patches of time."

Up Next: The Jaguars will take part in the Blue-Gray Classic, which is scheduled to begin in Montgomery on Friday, Feb. 21.

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