MURFREESBORO, NC- The Chowan University women's tennis team earned their first CIAA win of the season with a 9-0 victory over Bowie State University on Saturday afternoon.  The Hawks improve to 4-3 on the season and 1-0 in league play while the Lady Bulldogs start the year 0-1 overall and in CIAA play. 
 
Every Hawk in the lineup earned victories on Saturday as they swept Bowie State in both doubles and singles play. 
 
Natalya Kamenshchikova/Holly Stambaugh teamed up to blank Amber Peters/Antonique Johnson 8-0 to start out doubles play.  Breanne Johnson/Natalia Andrade defeated Oyabode Sodipo/Channae Manning 8-1 and Jessica De Backre/Jennifer Humphrey topped Brianna Burke/Rahwa Habtemariam 8-0. 
 
The Hawks continued to dominate in singles play.  Kamenshikova cruised past Peters 6-3, 6-0 while Johnson topped Sodipo 6-1, 6-1.  Stambaugh blanked Johnson 6-0, 6-0 and De Backre battled past Manning 6-1, 6-0.  Andrade earned a 6-0, 6-2 win over Burke and Staffari Cleveland defeated Mieke Allen 6-3, 6-0 to round out the 9-0 win for the Hawks. 
 
Chowan returns to action on Sunday when they host Longwood University.  First serve is slated for 11:00am.