February 8, 2004

LADY PALADINS FALL TO NO. 67 VIRGINIA TECH, 6-1

BLACKSBURG, VA -- The Furman Women's Tennis team dropped to 2-3 on the year Sunday after losing 6-1 to 67th ranked Virginia Tech. With the win the Hokies stayed undefeated at 5-0 on the season.

The match began with the morning doubles competition as Kinard/Lam of Virginia Tech beat Furman's Bentley/Eckert 8-5 at No. 1 and Virginia Tech clinched the doubles point when Elazari/Lowdermilk won 8-3 in the No. 2 event over Lisa Bornt-Davis/Moore. Furman's Hagood/Morris won the No. 3 match 8-4 against James/Rodriguez.

With the doubles point already won, Virginia Tech won five straight singles matches with Furman's only singles win coming when Marti Morris beat Carolina Rodriguez in the No. 6 slot. Anat Elazari won a tight three-set No. 1 match 6-3, 0-6, 6-4 against Mary Neill Hagood while Ginger Lowdermilk defeated Shannon Moore 6-3, 6-3 in the No. 2 contest. Tech picked up other singles victories as Felice Lam won 6-4, 6-4 at No. 3 over Jacqueline Eckert, Ashley James downed Caroline Bentley 6-3, 6-2 at No. 4 and Elissa Kinard won 6-2, 6-4 at No. 5 over Bonnie Baird.

Furman has an early conference match on Saturday, February 21, when Georgia Southern visits Greenville, SC. Match begins at 11:00.

Singles
No. 1 Anat Elazari (VT) def. Mary Neill Hagood (FU) 6-3, 0-6, 6-4
No. 2 Ginger Lowdermilk (VT) def. Shannon Moore (FU) 6-3, 6-3
No. 3 Felice Lam (VT) def. Jacqueline Eckert (FU) 6-4, 6-4
No. 4 Ashley James (VT) def. Caroline Bentley (FU) 6-3, 6-2
No. 5 Elissa Kinard (VT) def. Bonnie Baird (FU) 6-2, 6-4
No. 6 Marti Morris (FU) def. Carolina Rodriguez (VT) 6-3, 6-1

Doubles
No. 1 Kinard/Lam(VT) def. Bentley/Eckert (FU) 8-5
No. 2 Elazari/Lowdermilk (VT) def. Lisa Bornt-Davis/Moore (FU) 8-3
No. 3 Hagood/Morris (FU) def. James/Rodriguez (VT) 8-4