ASHLAND, Va. --- The Sweet Briar tennis team took the Randolph-Macon College Yellowjackets to task in an afternoon Old Dominion Athletic Conference contest.  The Vixen first-doubles team of Sarah Manter (Brunswick, Maine/Brunswick) and Emma Merritt-Cuneo (Pacifica, Calif./Oceana) secured a point while the second and third teams failed to convert wins.  The third team duo of Yuliya Rigg (Sweet Briar, Va./Amherst)/Courtney Todd (Sterling, Va./Dominion) gave SBC its best chance to win a second team point, but were eventually upended by the score of 8-6.  Singles play proved just as exciting.

The Vixens secured wins at the #1, 2 and 4 spots.  With all but one match decided and the overall score knotted at four points each, SBC's Rigg squared off with Randolph-Macon's Jessie McCollom (Hopewell, Va./Hopewell) on court #6.  Fans knew they were in for a treat as the first set was a duel narrowly decided 7-6, Yellowjackets.  Rigg bounced back with a strong performance in the second set, only to have the match slip from her grip in a closely contested third set. In the end, R-MC prevailed and earned the coveted fifth team point for the match victory.  The final tally from court six was: 7-6, 1-6, 6-4 in favor of the home team.

Sweet Briar Tennis will regroup and head south for spring break.  The southern tour kicks-off with a match against Huntingdon College on Saturday, March 10 in Greensboro, N.C. followed by two matches in Hilton Head Island, S.C. 

Doubles

#1 Emma Merritt-Cuneo/Sarah Manter (SBC) d. Caty-Betz Holcomb/Morgan Parks (RMC) 8-5

#2 Reba Sledd/Chelsey Jones (RMC) d. Allie Raifsnider/Rachel Byrd (SBC) 8-1

#3 Jessie McCollum/Jane Oh (RMC) d. Courtney Todd/Yuliya Rigg (SBC) 8-6

Singles

#1 Manter (SBC) d. Holcomb (RMC) 6-4, 6-1

# 2 Merritt-Cuneo (SBC) d. Parks (RMC) 6-1, 6-1

#3 Oh (RMC) d. Raifsnider (SBC) 6-2, 6-1

#4 Byrd (SBC) d. Sledd (RMC) 6-3, 6-4

#5 Jones (RMC) d. Todd (SBC) 6-1, 7-5

#6 McCullom (RMC) d. Rigg (SBC) 7-6, 1-6, 6-4

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