BREVARD, N.C. --- Queens University of Charlotte captured two of the three doubles points and the 28th-ranked Royals posted three singles victories in knocking off No. 31 Tusculum College 5-2 Friday afternoon in a semifinal match of the 2015 South Atlantic Conference Women's Tennis Tournament.

The SAC Tournament is being this weekend at the McCoy Tennis Complex and hosted by Brevard College.

Queens (16-2) avenged a 5-4 loss to the defending SAC Tournament champions earlier this month.

The third-seeded Royals jumped out to a 1-0 lead at the top-flight doubles pairing of Carlotta Nassi and Melissa Laing (ranked No. 9 in NCAA II Southeast Region doubles) defeated TC's Franziska Funke and Amanda Sumner, 8-4 in pro sets.

No. 2-seed Tusculum tied the match at 1-1 when the duo of Erin Mills and Kealee Heffner rallied from an early deficit to defeat Marta Gonzalez and Caroline Nielsen 8-6.

Queens captured a huge point at No. 3 doubles as Jackie Rock and Claire Hamilton edged Tusculum's Kate Hutchinson and Emily Waters 9-8, winning the tiebreaker by a 7-5 count.

Funke, an All-SAC honorable mention selection, tied the match at 2-2 with her 6-2, 6-4 victory over Gonzalez at No. 3 singles. But Nassi, the 2015 SAC Player and Freshman of the Year, gave the Royals a 3-2 lead with her 6-4, 6-0 win against Heffner at the first flight.

At No. 5 singles, Rock dropped the opening set 6-4 to Tusculum sophomore Sarah Baker, but rallied to win the second set 6-1. Baker suffered an injury early in the deciding set and could not continue as the Royals led 4-2.

Nielsen captured the deciding point at No. 4 singles with her 7-5, 6-4 victory over Hutchinson to punch Queens' ticket for Saturday's championship match against top-seed Wingate University.

The Pioneers (18-2) will have to wait for a possible at-large bid to next month's NCAA Division II Tournament. The tournament field will be announced next month.

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