Two Flight Titles Highlight Final Day of Hokie Invite

Friday, September 28

Blacksburg, Va.

James Madison University

Hokie Fall Invitational

9/30/2018 3:31:00 PM | Women's Tennis

BLACKSBURG, Va. – A flight championship in both doubles and singles highlighted James Madison women's tennis final day at the Hokie Fall Invitational.

Freshman Daria Afanasyeva and senior Emma Petersen started the day for the Dukes with a hard-fought 8-6 victory over Virginia Tech's Annie Clark and Emily Pence to claim the Loyalty Doubles Flight Championship.

The duo of junior Diane Flament and freshman Amanda Nord fell in tie-break (8-7(6)) to West Virginia's Annie-Sophie Courteau and Abigail Rosiello. The defeat was the first for Nord in her freshman campaign.

In singles action, Nord bounced back to win the Service Singles Flight title in straight set fashion over Georgia State's Elizabeth Goines 6-2, 6-1. Nord dropped ten total games over three matches en route to her flight championship.

JMU closed the day with straight set wins from senior Abby Amos (6-1, 6-4) and Petersen (6-1, 7-5), along with a third-set super-tiebreak victory from Flament over VCU's Noumea Witmus (4-6, 6-2, 1-0(10-5)).

QUOTING HEAD COACH SHELLEY JAUDON
"First I'd like to thank Virginia Tech for hosting us and for a great weekend of tennis. I really challenged the girls to make the last day our best day in how we competed and they answered the challenge well. We got better as a team this weekend and will use this weekend to keep building toward the spring."

RESULTS
Singles:
UT Prosim Flight Backdraw
FI: Abby Amos def. Drousile Dzeubou (RU) 6-1, 6-4

Honor Flight
FI: Samantha Gillas (VT) def. Daniela Voloh 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
1: Samantha Smith (PSU) def. Daria afanasyeva 6-1, 6-4

Leadership Flight
1: Diane Flament def. Noumea Witmus (VCU) 4-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-5)

Duty Flight Backdraw
1: Emma Petersen def. Annie Clark (VT) 6-1, 7-5

Service Flight
FI: Amanda Nord def. Elizabeth Goines (GSU) 6-2, 6-1

Doubles:
Brotherhood Flight
1: Amos/Voloh def. Goetz/Bovolskava (WVU) w/d

Loyalty Flight
FI: Afanasyeva/Petersen def. Clark/Pence (VT) 8-6

Sacrifice Flight
FI: Caourteau/Rosiello (WVU) def. Flament/Nord 8-7(6)

UP NEXT
JMU will have over a week off, before resuming play at the ITA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship in Lynchburg, Va. Matches will begin Friday, October, 12^th.