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Tusculum shuts out Coker, 9-0

Tusculum shuts out Coker, 9-0
Box score HARTSVILLE, S.C. ---

The Tusculum College Women's tennis team dispatched Coker College 9-0 in a South Atlantic Conference match Thursday afternoon.

The Pioneers (18-2, 9-1 SAC) rebounded from the end of their 14-match winning streak on Tuesday to Wingate by dropping just nine games in singles and four in doubles to the winless Cobras (0-17, 0-10 SAC).

Tusculum raced out to a 3-0 lead in doubles as Kate Hutchinson and Kealee Heffner defeated Jessi Campos and Sarah Elliott 8-2 at flight one, Erin Mills and Adrienne Kaye downed Faith Baxley and Kyria Borelli 8-2 at flight two, and Emily Waters and Amanda Sumner blanked Rachel Solomon and Adri Watford 8-0 at flight three.

In singles, Sarah Baker won 6-3, 6-0 over Campos at flight one, Mills beat Elliott 6-2, 6-1 at flight two and Hutchinson bested Borelli 6-1, 6-1 at flight three. At flight four, Heffner downed Baxler 6-0, 6-1 while Kaye shut out Solomon 6-0, 6-0 at flight five and Sumner closed out Watford 6-0, 6-0 at flight six.

The Pioneers will look to lock up the number-two seed and a bye into the Food Lion SAC Tournament semifinals when they host Queens University in their SAC regular-season finale on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at the Nichols Tennis Complex.

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