MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The University of South Alabama women's tennis team lost both of its consolation matches on Saturday at the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic at Lagoon Park.

Alabama defeated the Jaguars 4-0 in the morning before Arizona won by the same score in each school's final match of the tournament later in the day.

ALABAMA
-Isabella Harvison and Moka Ito combined for a 6-0 victory over Yu Fujioka and Nikola Kohoutova on the No. 2 court to open doubles action on Friday, but Cami Moreno and Leslie Soto answered with a 6-3 win at No. 3 over Luca Fabian and Ann Selim.
-The Crimson Tide went ahead 1-0 after Alba Cortina Pou and Sasha Gorchanyuk defeated Milka Pasanen and Yurie Takanishi at the No. 1 position 6-4.
-Ares Teixido earned a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Takanishi at No. 4 when singles play got underway on Saturday.
-On the No. 2 court, Harvison defeated Moreno 6-2, 7-5.
-Alabama closed out the victory when Moka beat Fujioka 6-1, 4-6, 6-2 at the No. 1 position.

ARIZONA
-Kirsten Prelle and Kayla Wilkins and defeated Pasanen and Takanishi 6-1 at No. 1 doubles, and when Gitte Heynemans and Khim Iglupas picked up a 6-3 victory at the No. 3 position over Moreno and Soto the Wildcats jumped out to a 1-0 advantage.
-Iglupas earned the first singles point with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Takanishi at No. 4.
-Heynemans recorded a 6-0, 6-4 defeat of Pasanen on the No. 5 court.
-Soto — playing her first singles match of the event — fell at No. 6 to Wilkins 6-4, 6-2.

NOTES
-South is now 5-6 overall this season.
-It was the Jaguars' first meeting with the Crimson Tide since April 12, 2006, with USA's three-match win streak in the series coming to an end.
-The match-up with the Wildcats was the first for USA since it defeated Arizona on Feb. 11, 2005.

THEY SAID IT
Head Coach Jaco Keyser
On the second day of the tournament: "I thought we played really well against Alabama in the morning but took a little bit of a step back against Arizona this afternoon; that may have been some mental fatigue setting in after playing three high-level teams in two days.  It would have been nice to collect a win this weekend, but there is no doubt in my mind that these matches will improve our toughness and pay dividends once our conference schedule starts."

Up Next: The Jags return to action with a home match against Samford that will get underway at 10 a.m. (CST) on Saturday, Feb. 29.

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