On Friday evening, the Spring Hill College women's tennis team was stopped by No. 16 Xavier University-New Orleans by the score of 7-2 at the University of New Orleans Tennis Center.

Spring Hill was down 2-1 after the doubles matches as only the No. 3 team of McCall Hedrick and Alex Tovar could take an 8-4 win.  In singles play, sophomore Lynne Fritscher took an exciting 3-6, 6-4, 1-0 (10-8) win on the No. 5 court.

The Spring Hill women (3-3, 3-3 GCAC) will travel to Jackson, Miss., on Saturday to face two conference foes in Tougaloo and Belhaven Colleges.  Xavier moved to 16-5 on the season and finished GCAC play 8-0 on the year.

Singles
1.  Anastesia Opata (XU) def. Paige Malone (SHC); 6-0, 6-0
2.  Angeline Callis (XU) def. Allison Symulevich (SHC); 6-2, 6-0
3.  Yulien Dominguez (XU) def. McCall Hedrick (SHC); 6-1, 6-2
4.  Colleen McArthur (XU) def. Abbey Angelle (SHC); 6-0, 6-3
5.  Lynn Fritscher (SHC) def. Jihanna Mughnee (XU); 3-6, 6-4, 1-0 (10-8)
6.  Marian Lang (XU) def. Alex Tovar (SHC); 6-4, 5-7, 1-0 (10-6)

Doubles
1.  Opata-Callis (XU) def. Fritscher-Malone (SHC); 8-0
2.  Dominguez-McArthur (XU) def. Angelle-Symulevich (SHC); 8-3
3.  Hedrick-Tovar (SHC) def. Broussard-DeLoach; 8-4