NEWS

Women’s Tennis played in Statesboro, Georgia last weekend.

STATESBORO, GA. – The Davidson College women’s tennis team continued the fall portion of its schedule this past weekend competing in the Georgia Southern Shootout from Oct. 13-15.

Eight institutions, including the Davidson, were in attendance over the weekend in East Tennessee State University, Jacksonville State University, South Carolina State University, Mercer, Kennesaw State, Georgia State and host Georgia Southern. The invitational held 54 individual student-athletes in four singles flights and two doubles flights.

“We battled some weather both Friday and Saturday but the team handled the adversity well” said head coach Susanne Depka. “We took our opponents to eight third set tiebreaks, so we were in a lot of matches. If we can continue to work with the process and our present moment focuses to control the nerves during the tight moments, I believe those matches will be in our favor. We ended Sunday well with a lot of improvement from the previous two days. I look forward to seeing how we can continue to grow going into our Carolina Regionals this coming weekend.”

The Wildcats performances were highlighted by Alex Rodehorst who went 2-0 through singles competition with identical 6-1, 6-1 wins over Kennedi Jones (Mercer) Friday and Anna White (Georgia State) Sunday.

Emma Heiderscheit defeated Ninon Martinache 5-7, 6-4 (10-3) in a singles bout Friday before suffering a loss in the draw Sunday. Additionally, Heiderscheit paired with Kavya Patel to to a 6-1 doubles win over a Mercer duo Saturday.

Olivia Hooper was the remaining ‘Cat to pick up a win in the opening day as she earned a 5-3 victory over Laura Nadaska (Kennesaw State).

Rounding out Davidson doubles wins was Savanna Kollock and Bryson Langford who earned a 6-1 win over a Jacksonville State pairing Saturday.

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The Wildcats will return to action on Oct. 19-23 in Chapel Hill, N.C.