No. 12 Mississippi Gulf Coast closed out the women’s tennis regular season in grand style Friday, sweeping past Coastal Alabama-South 9-0 in Daphne, Ala.
“Coastal was down a player, unfortunately, which would have made them deeper, but we went in there and did what we needed to do,” Bulldogs coach Sam Blackburn said. “We played a couple of matches against good players we were able to do well against. We finished the regular season on a really strong note. I’m proud of them.”
Valeria Callejo (Fr., Madrid, Spain/I.E.S. Ortega y Gasset) and Kendall Burn (So., Wiggins/Stone) won their No. 2 doubles match 8-1, as did Mikenzy Dubrow (Fr., Biloxi/Biloxi) and Lauren Sullivan (Fr., Laurel/Laurel Christian) at No. 3.
In singles, Danique Vermue (Fr., ‘s-Heerenhoek, Netherlands/Scheldemond College) won her No. 2 court dropping only one game, as did Burn at No. 4, Sullivan at No. 5 and Niyah Strickland (So., Pachuta/Quitman) at No. 6.
Gulf Coast (11-4) also learned its schedule for the NJCAA Region 23 Women’s Tennis Championship on Friday. The second-seeded Bulldogs will play No. 7 Hinds in Ellisville at 3:30 p.m. next Thursday. They would face the Meridian-Northwest Mississippi winner in the semifinals Friday at 2 p.m., and the championship is scheduled for Saturday at 10 a.m.
“We’re looking forward to it,” Blackburn said. “I think we have a pretty good draw, and we had a pretty good performance against Hinds. It’s not a team we can take it easy against. If we do well, we probably play Meridian who we beat 5-4 last time.”
Results
Team: Gulf Coast Women 9, Coastal Alabama-South 0
Doubles
No. 1: Angela Moreno–Danique Vermue (GC) def. Julianne Legg-Sydney Cohen, 8-3
No. 2: Valeria Callejo–Kendall Burn (GC) def. Lena Spears-Hannah Vosteen, 8-1
No. 3: Mikenzy Dubrow–Lauren Sullivan (GC) def. Mya Schaffer-Abigail Carlson, 8-1
Singles
No. 1: Moreno (GC) def. Legg, 6-3, 6-2
No. 2: Vermue (GC) def. Vosteen, 6-1, 6-0
No. 3: Callejo (GC) def. Cohen, 6-3, 6-1
No. 4: Burn (GC) def. Spears, 6-0, 6-1
No. 5: Sullivan (GC) def. Carlson, 6-0, 6-1
No. 6: Niyah Strickland (GC) def. Schaffer, 6-0, 6-1
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