LAKELAND - Florida Southern continued its eight-match home stand here Thursday afternoon by posting its second straight shutout victory as the 10th-ranked Moccasins collected a 9-0 win over Winona (Minn.) State in non-conference action at the Wynee Warden Tennis Center.
The Mocs opened the home stand on Monday with a 9-0 win over Chestnut Hill and improves to 3-1 at home on the season and 6-2 overall on the year. Winona State falls to 4-7 on the season in its final match of its Spring Break trip to Florida.
In Thursday's match, the Mocs posted three shutout wins in singles and earned a shut out win at No. 3 doubles as seniors Joalis Dominguez (Vero Beach, Fla.) and Laura Wichmann (Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany) earned an 8-0 win over Brittney Freund and Kate Scruggs. It was the pair's third straight win in doubles as they improved to 6-1 on the season.
FSC's other two doubles matches were much of the same as its No. 2 team of freshman Dominique Friedrichs (Hufingen, Germany) and junior Oliva Spagnuolo (Andover, Mass.) won 8-1, while the Mocs nationally-ranked No. 1 team posted an 8-4 win over WSU's No. 1 team of Hannah Potter and Jessica Urban, 8-4. The 10th-ranked team of Goge and Riutort have now won five straight matches and are 6-2 on the season in doubles.
Meanwhile, in singles action, the Mocs picked up 6-0, 6-0 shutout victories by Goge at the No. 2 spot, Spagnuolo at the No. 3 and her older sister, Victoria Spagnuolo (Andover, Mass.) at the No. 5 spot. In the other three singles matches, the Mocs only lost a total of seven games as 22nd-ranked Riutort lost five of those seven games as she defeated Urban (6-4, 6-1) at the No. 1 spot, while Friedrichs won 6-0, 6-1 at the No. 4 spot and senior Pamela Paradis (Quebec City, Quebec) won 6-0, 6-1 at the No. 6 spot.
The Mocs will continue its home stand on Friday, March 14 as they host seventh-ranked West Florida in a 2 p.m. match at the Wynee Warden Tennis Center.
#10 Florida Southern 9, Winona State 0
03/13/14 at Lakeland, FL (Wynee Warden Tennis Center)
| Singles competition |
| 1. #22 Magda Riutort (FSCW) def. Jessica Urban (WSU) 6-4, 6-1 |
| 2. #32 Sabine Goge (FSCW) def. Hannah Potter (WSU) 6-0, 6-0 |
| 3. Olivia Spagnuolo (FSCW) def. Aimee Basinski (WSU) 6-0, 6-0 |
| 4. Dominique Friedrichs (FSCW) def. Brianna Havelka (WSU) 6-1, 6-0 |
| 5. Victoria Spagnuolo (FSCW) def. Andrea Krueger (WSU) 6-0, 6-0 |
| 6. Pamela Paradis (FSCW) def. Brittney Freund (WSU) 6-0, 6-1 |
| Doubles competition |
| 1. #10 Sabine Goge/Magda Riutort (FSCW) def. Hannah Potter/Jessica Urban (WSU) 8-1 |
| 2. Dominique Friedrichs/Olivia Spagnuolo (FSCW) def. Brianna Havelka/Aimee Basinski (WSU) 8-4 |
| 3. Joalis Dominguez/Laura Wichmann (FSCW) def. Brittney Freund/Kate Scruggs (WSU) 8-0 |
| Match Notes |
| Winona State 4-7 |
| Florida Southern 6-2; National ranking #10; Regional ranking #6 |
