CHARLESTON, S.C.  – The College of Charleston women's tennis team swept past Savannah State on Saturday morning in a 7-0 victory. The Cougars won on all three courts in doubles play while picking up six singles victories, five in straight sets, to move to 12-8 on the season and win a fifth straight match at Patriots Point.

Eva Nyikos and Anastasia Palaska teamed up in flight one doubles play, moving past Sofia Shut'ko and Ekaterina Vorobeva of SSU, 6-0, Lily LaBiche and Clara Errard also winning 6-0 on court two to clinch the doubles point. Ava Turner and Catalina Medici made it a sweep in doubles play with a 6-1 victory on court three.
 
Errard raced into a 6-0, 6-0, victory on court five to open singles action, Nyikos finishing minutes later on court one, also in a 6-0, 6-0, win to pick up her seventh singles victory of the year.
 
Medici was next to finish, again in straight sets fashion, 6-2, 6-0, on court four to push Charleston into an unassailable 4-0 lead, Palaska winning 6-2, 6-2, on court two to make it 5-0.

Winning her 10^th singles match of the year, LaBiche defeated Ranjan of SSU, 6-1, 6-3, on court three with Turner last to finish on court six. The sophomore battling back from a first set loss to complete a come-from-behind win, taking the second set 7-6 then completing the comeback with a 10-3 tiebreaker in the third to give Charleston a 7-0 win, the first shutout of the 2019 season.
 
The Cougars improve their home record to 11-4 with the win, 12-8 overall, and have now won nine of the past 11 matches at Patriots Point. A weekend on the road awaits Charleston when they travel to James Madison and Elon, Apr. 6-7, before returning to the lowcountry for two home matches to close out the regular season.

Quotable – Head Coach Angelo Anastopoulo
"I was real happy for Ava Turner to come back and win her match in three sets to earn our teams first 7-0 victory of the year… Savannah State can be a tricky team, they've had some close matches so to come out here and win 7-0 without our three seniors in the starting lineup is a credit to our teams performance… This should give us a little boost heading into a conference weekend with a team that's predicted to win the CAA in James Madison and of course Elon, we always have great battles, seems like every match comes down to a 4-3 so a very challenging weekend coming up that we're going to need to be at our best."
 
Results
Doubles
Nyikos/Palaska (CofC) def. Shut'ko/Vorobeva (SSU), 6-0
Errard/LaBiche (CofC) def. Turner/Ranjan (SSU), 6-0
Turner/Medici (CofC) def. Ranjan/Gilbert (SSU), 6-1
Finish: 1, 2, 3
 
Singles
Nyikos (CofC) def. Shut'ko (SSU), 6-0, 6-0
Palaska (CofC) def. S. Ranjan (SSU), 6-2, 6-2
LaBiche (CofC) def. M. Ranjan (SSU), 6-1, 6-3
Medici (CofC) def. Vorobeva (SSU), 6-2, 6-0
Errard (CofC) def. Turner (SSU), 6-0, 6-0
Turner (CofC) def. Gilbert (SSU), 3-6, 7-6, 1-0 (10-3)
Finish: 5, 1, 4, 2, 3, 6