MURFREESBORO - The Chowan University women's tennis team advanced to an overall 3-0 record on the season after downing Meredith College in a non-conference match on Monday afternoon. The Hawks clipped the Avenging Angels 7-2 after winning two out of three doubles matches and five singles matches. Meredith College falls to a 0-2 record after the match.

The number one doubles team of Polina Novachuk and Victoria Smolchenkova  dropped a close 8-6 decision to Ran Zhang and Catherine Bryant. Cynthia Carrier and Angelique Gouin defeated Jacqueline Benton and Laura Anne Hatcher 8-1 in the number two doubles match and Chowan's Natalia Andrade and Roxana Daneshjoo picked up an 8-3 win over Cailin Goff and Kate DeSilva at the number three doubles position.

Heading into singles with a 2-1 lead, Chowan's Jessica De Backre downed DeSilva 6-2, 6-2 at the number five singles position while Anna Makhneva took a 6-0, 6-1 win over Benton at the number six singles position to give the Hawks a 4-1 lead. The clinching match came at the number four singles position with Gouin defeating  Hatcher 6-0, 6-3. Novachuk won at the number one singles position 6-3, 7-5 over Bryant while Carrier picked up a win at the number three position defeating Goff 7-6 (5), 6-3. Chowan's Smolchenkova fell to Meredith's Zhang at the number two singles match, 6-2, 7-6(7).

The Hawks will hit the court again on Saturday, February 27^th when they travel to White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia to take on West Virginia State. Match time is set for 3:00pm at The Greenbrier .