Davidson Evens SoCon Mark With 6-1 Victory in W. Tennis

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DAVIDSON, N.C. – Junior Alison Rauh (Trier, Germany) and sophomore Stephani Synn (Conover, N.C.) each pushed their singles winning streak to three straight, and Davidson evened its Southern Conference record with a 6-1 triumph over visiting Georgia Southern in women's tennis on a sunny Saturday morning at the Covington Tennis Courts.

Davidson (9-5, 2-2 SoCon) regrouped after dropped a 5-2 decision to College of Charleston last time out, by taking five of the six singles matches as well as two of the three doubles matches.

Rauh and Synn helped the 'Cats get the doubles point to start things off by taking an 8-2 decision at No. 2 for their seventh win as a pair and run their SoCon mark to 3-1.

Winning their team-best eight doubles match and sealing the doubles win was the senior pair of Teresa Wang (Charlotte, N.C.) and Virginia Berry (Spartanburg, S.C.) as they captured an 8-4 win at No.1 over GSU's (8-7, 3-3 SoCon) Ali Beavers and Natalie Maffett.

The two team doubles wins for Davidson evened their overall mark at 21-21.

Those four then carried their strong play into singles as they earned wins at the No. 1-4 positions. Berry evened her league mark to 2-2 (8-5 overall) with a three-set win at No. 1 vs. Beavers. After dropping the first set, 6-2, she rattled off two 6-1 wins in the next two sets.

Wang earned a clean two-set sweep at No. 2 (6-2, 6-0), while Synn and Rauh also took home a pair of two-set wins. Synn remained unbeaten in league play and won her team-high 10th singles decision with a 7-5, 6-2 at the No. 3 spot. Rauh evened her singles mark at 7-7 (3-1 SoCon) with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Jessica Fuller at No. 4.

Rounding out the Wildcats' lineup with the final point was junior Samantha Galainena (Burr Ridge, Ill.), who needed an extra set for her eighth singles win of the year. She took the first set, 6-1, but fell in the next one by the identical score. She came back though, and brought home a 6-4 win in the final set.

Davidson, which just concluded a five-match homestand with a 2-3 record, hits the road now for a couple of matches. First, the Wildcats will close out March with a 4 p.m. match at UNC Greensboro, and then they will open April against cross-county rival Charlotte on the 1st at 3 pm.

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