HARROGATE, Tenn. – Less than 24 hours from rebounding from its first loss of 2019-20, the Lincoln Memorial University women's tennis team won its second match of the weekend by turning back Bluefield State 7-0 Sunday afternoon inside the LMU Indoor Tennis Facility.
 
The Lady Railsplitters (5-1) controlled the match from the onset by winning all three doubles spots and then rolling through the bottom four positions in singles with little resistance. Taking all three doubles matches by identical sets of 6-2, LMU got gritty performances at the top of its singles lineup.
 
The Lady Big Blues (0-6), a fellow NCAA Division II member from the Atlantic Region of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA), rallied to take the No. 1 and No. 2 singles matches deep into second sets before the Lady Railsplitters' Johanna Delisse and Kiersten Waugh held firm and completed the team's first sweep of 2019-20. 
 
Senior Delisse won at the top spot 6-4, 6-3 over Bluefield State's Ghita Courdi, while fellow senior Waugh was victorious over Milica Knezevic 6-1, 5-7 and 10-8 in the decisive match tiebreak at No. 2 singles.
 
Junior Julia Valls, sophomore Amanda Dahlstrom, sophomore Claudia Rodriguez and junior Kristin Vogel gave up just seven combined games in the No. 3-6 singles spots.
 
Up Next…
The Lady Railsplitters have a week off from match action before returning to the courts for competition this Sunday, Feb. 23 at Young Harris. First serve in north Georgia is slated for 2 p.m.
 
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