The Tusculum College Women's tennis team extended its winning streak to eight matches in a row with a pair of 9-0 victories on Tuesday. The Pioneers defeated Shepherd and Edgewood without dropping a set to improve their record to 11-1 ahead of next Tuesday's South Atlantic Conference match against Mars Hill.

Tusculum 9, Shepherd 0
(Box Score)

The Pioneers lost a total of six games between singles and doubles, with four singles wins and two doubles victories coming with losing a game to the Rams (5-9).

Doubles saw the team of Sarah Baker and Kealee Hefner beat Stacy Brewbaker and Jana Jones 8-0 at flight one, and Adrienne Kaye and Erin Mills defeat Brooke Davis and Chloe Raines 8-0 at flight two. At flight three, Amanda Sumner and Emily Waters stayed unbeaten at 10-0 with an 8-1 victory over Jessica Fort and Alice D'Alauro.

In singles, Baker downed Jones 6-1, 6-1 at flight one and Mills beat Brewbaker 6-2, 6-1 at flight two. The rest of the matches were all 6-0, 6-0 sweeps for the Pioneers, as Kate Hutchinson defeated Davis, Kaye won over Raines, Sumner swept Fort and Waters blanked D'Alauro.

Tusculum 9, Edgewood 0
(Box Score)

The Pioneers cruised to the win over the Division III Eagles (14-4) by winning all but four games in doubles and 12 in singles.

Hutchinson and Heffner teamed up to beat Morgan Wilson and Brooke McBain 8-1 at flight one, Kaye and Mills beat Anna Miles and Laura Olson 8-1 at flight two to boost their record to 9-0, and Baker and Sumner downed Sarah Rendon and Kristen Boone 8-2 at flight three.

In singles play, Baker beat Wilson 6-2, 6-4 at flight one, Hutchinson defeated Miles 6-0, 6-2 at flight two and Heffner closed out Ellie Wilkie 6-0, 6-1 at flight three. At flight four, Kaye improved to 12-0 with a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Olsen, Sumner beat McBain 6-1, 6-0 at flight five and Waters breezed past Ashli Paulson 6-1, 6-0 at flight six.