CLEVELAND, Tenn. --- The Tusculum University women's tennis team claimed its fourth straight victory on Tuesday with a 5-2 win at Lee University in non-conference action at the DeVos Tennis Center.
The Pioneers (5-1) won the final two doubles sets to win the team point, then earned victories in three of the first four singles matches to lock up the victory.
In doubles, the Flames (0-2) won at flight one but the Pioneers came back as Leonie Floeth and Paulina Loretz beat Micaela Belen Maiz and Larissa Wieser 6-3 at flight two, and Emilie Hansen teamed with Valentina Loretz for a 7-5 win over Hayden Smith and Mirjana Ragastovac to give Tusculum a 1-0 lead.
Lee evened the match with a straight-set win at flight one of singles, but Tusculum won the next three matches to clinch the win. Tabitha Howe defeated Matina Ujdur 6-4, 6-3 at flight two and Floeth downed Maiz 7-5, 6-3 at flight two to push Tusculum ahead 3-1. Valentina Loretz earned the clincher with a 6-1, 6-1 win at flight six over Smith. Paulina Loretz added the final point for the Pioneers with a 6-1, 6-4 victory at flight five over Sierra Donaldson.
Tusculum will be back in South Atlantic Conference competition on Thursday with a 1 p.m. match at Newberry.