Women's tennis wins in Mississippi

The Emory Oxford tennis teams traveled to Mississippi to face three tough NJCAA Division II teams.

The women defeated both Meridian Community College and Northwest Mississippi Community College. The team then lost to No. 9 Jones Community College.

The scores were as follows:

Against Meridian:

Doubles:

1. Rachel Blais/Karina Artemiev (Oxford) d. Aleah McMullan/Reine Akombo 8-1

2. Daisi Kukljan/Elizabeth Shirley (Meridian) d. Anastasiya Speyer/Chloe Macaluso 8-7(5)

3. Zari Haque/Samantha Goldberg (Oxford) d. Piper Collins/Michaela Mayerhoff 8-1

Singles:

1. Blais d. Akombo 6-2, 6-4

2. Speyer d. Kukuljan 6-3, 6-4

3. Artemiev d. Shirley 6-3, 6-1

4. Haque d. McMullan 6-3, 6-3

5. Macaluso d. Mayerhoff 6-0, 6-0

6. Arielle Gomberg (Oxford) d. Collins 6-0, 6-0.

Against Northwest Mississippi:

Doubles

1. Speyer/Blais d. Claudia Lopez Chaparro/Laura Cámara Blanco 8-6

2. Angela Ortiz-Sanchez/Meg Daves d. Haque/Artemiev 9-7

3. Gomberg/Goldberg d. Ava McCain/Brooke Kicker 8-4

Singles

1. Blais d. Ortiz-Sanchez 6-1, 6-3

2. Artemiev d. Lopez Chaparro 6-1, 4-6, 1-0 (10-5)

3. Speyer d. Cámara-Blanco 6-4, 7-5

4. Haque d. Daves 6-3, 6-2

5. Macaluso d. Kicker 6-1, 6-1

6. McCain d. Goldberg 7-6(1), 4-6, 1-0 (10-8)

For the men, Oxford played Meridian very closely, losing 5-4.

First-years Ben Wu and Kevin Luo got the only win in doubles (8-1). Winning in singles was first-year Alex Kassatly (6-0, 6-0), Luo (6-0, 6-4), and Wu (6-2, 6-2).