Dukes Battle Through Final Day of Liberty Invitational

Saturday, September 22

Lynchburg, Va.

James Madison University

Liberty Fall Invitational

9/23/2018 6:14:00 PM | Women's Tennis

LYNCHBURG, Va. – James Madison women's tennis closed out the Liberty Fall Invitational Sunday afternoon, battling through a morning weather delay and ten hard fought matches.

The Dukes started the day with victories in two of three doubles matches.

The duo of senior Abby Amos and freshman Daniela Voloh won their third match of the weekend following a 6-4 dispatching of Liberty's pair of Kalani Soli and Rebekah Anderson.

JMU closed doubles play with a 6-3 victory from junior's Jona Roka and Diane Flament over Liberty's Anna Dollar and Ashley Bongart. The triumph was the duo's second of the weekend and Flament's fifth of the event.

In singles play, the Dukes battled through three, three set matches claiming victories from Amos (6-3, 3-6, 1-0 (15-13) and Nord (6-4, 6-4) to close the afternoon.

QUOTING HEAD COACH SHELLEY JAUDON
"While today's results may not reflect our progress, as a team this was a really productive day for our girls. We competed well all weekend and were able to identify some areas for everyone to improve heading into next weekend at Virginia Tech."

RESULTS
Singles:
Kalani Soli (Liberty) def. Daniela Voloh 6-3, 6-2
Lara Soares (Liberty) def. Daria Afanasyeva 6-2, 6-3
Abby Amos def. Ashley Bongart (Liberty) 6-3, 3-6, 1-0 (15-13)
Maria Medina (Liberty) def. Jona Roka 6-3, 6-2
Rebekah Anderson (Liberty) def. Diane Flament 3-6, 6-3, 1-0 (10-7)
Anna Dollar (Liberty) def. Emma Petersen 6-2, 5-7, 1-0 (10-5)
Amanda Nord def. Alexandra Almborg (Liberty) 6-4, 6-4

Doubles:
Amos/Voloh def. Soli/Anderson (Liberty) 6-4
Medina/Soares (Liberty) def. Petersen/Afanasyeva 7-6 (7-4)
Roka/Flament def. Dollar/Bongart (Liberty) 6-3

UP NEXT
The Dukes will head south to Blacksburg, Va. next weekend to take part in the Hokie Fall Invitational. Play will begin Friday, September, 28th.