MOBILE, Ala. – The University of South Alabama women's tennis team picked up its fourth consecutive victory after defeating West Alabama 6-0 at the Bruce David Lubel Memorial Tennis Courts on Tuesday.

The Jaguars dropped just one game on the first two doubles courts before using three straight-sets wins in singles play to move to 4-2 on the season.

South Alabama 6, West Alabama 0 (box score)

DOUBLES
-Yu Fujioka and Nikola Kohoutova earned a 6-0 win at No. 1 over Thea Yang and Haina Franco.
-Yurie Takanishi and Milka Pasanen defeated Valeria Arevalo and Daryna Hukasian 6-1 on the No. 2 court to clinch the doubles point and a 1-0 lead for the Jaguars.

SINGLES
-Kohoutova picked up a 6-1, 6-2 decision over Yang at the No. 2 position for the first result in singles action.
-Takanishi beat Hukasian 6-2, 6-4 at No. 3 moments before Leslie Soto clinched the match for the Jaguars with a 7-5, 6-1 victory on the No. 6 court over Morgan Bishop.
-Fujioka won at No. 1, 6-4, 6-3, over Franco.
-Diana Monsalve was a 3-6, 6-1, 10-4 winner over Hardija Vidnere at the No. 5 position.

NOTES
-It's the second straight year that the Jags have defeated the Tigers in Mobile.
-Kohoutova and Takanishi have now each claimed four consecutive singles matches.
-Fujioka and Kohoutova won their team-best third doubles match in the spring.
-Monsalve's victory in singles was her first since clinching South's win over Middle Tennessee on Feb. 19.
-It was the first singles victory this spring for Soto.

THEY SAID IT
Head Coach Jaco Keyser
On the win over the Tigers: "They have some good players, we know them from fall tournaments.  The positive is that it's good to get a win when we didn't play our best tennis, although they had something to do with that.  But today is a reminder of how far we have to go to accomplish what we want to do."
On what the team can improve on moving forward: "We didn't establish a presence from a defensive standpoint, we struggled with the basic fundamentals and had some little breakdowns in our game plans.  It's early in the season so hopefully we can smooth those things out.  I think we are progressing pretty well, we are on schedule but ideally those improvements happen a lot faster after today."

Up Next: South will remain in Mobile and take on North Florida at 10 a.m. (CST) on Saturday.

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