Pugliese claims match against No. 3 Tyler

No. 15 Mississippi Gulf Coast dropped its women's tennis match Friday in the Tyler Invitational, falling to the third-ranked team in the country.

No. 3 Tyler, the event host, won 8-1 at the JoAnn Medlock Murphy Tennis Center.

"They just played a really good team today that was playing really good tennis," Gulf Coast coach Sam Blackburn said. "Our girls played hard and played pretty well, but we just lost to a good team. A big shoutout to Pia for a massive win at (No. 2) singles over a really good player. That was one of the biggest ones we've had individually from somebody so far, so that was really cool."

Pia Pugliese (Fr., San Juan, Argentina/Colegio Central Universitario Mariano Moreno) picked up the Bulldogs' point, winning 6-3, 7-5 at No. 2 singles. She's 2-0 in singles matches in Texas, having won in straight sets Friday against No. 13 Pratt.

The Bulldogs are 5-4, while the Apaches improved to 6-2.

Gulf Coast has two matches scheduled Saturday: No. 2 Cowley County at 9 a.m. and No. 4 Collin County at 3 p.m. They'll wrap things up Sunday morning playing Jacksonville at 9 a.m.

Results

Team: Tyler 8, Gulf Coast 1

Doubles

No. 1: Dina Lipovski-Alix Dol (TJC) def. Isona Arnaus-Victoria Ros Fabuel, 8-2

No. 2: Sherin Scheerle-Idom Cho (TJC) def. Pia Pugliese-Paige Baronich, 8-3

No. 3: Natalia Garcia-Sylvie Peart (TJC) def. Katelyn Walker-Meredith Matthews, 8-2 

Singles

No. 1: Lipovski (TJC) def. Arnaus, 6-0, 6-3

No. 2: Pugliese (GC) def. Scheerle, 6-3, 7-5

No. 3: Dol (TJC) def. Ros Fabuel, 6-2, 6-3

No. 4: Garcia (TJC) def. Baronich, 6-0, 6-1

No. 5: Peart (TJC) def. Walker, 6-0, 6-0

No. 6: Cho (TJC) def. Andee Rogers, 6-0, 6-1

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