Women's scores    
 Men's scores
        NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University
 of Louisiana won 13-of-16 matches Friday on the opening day of the Dillard
  Invitational tennis tournament.
	
        Going 2-0 were 
Jacobi Bain, 
Mathieu Strauss
 amd 
Jered Wilson of the Gold Rush and 
Mbali Langa of the Gold Nuggets.
 Bain reached the men's singles A-bracket final after defeating Hippolyte Barbier de Preville
 of city rival Loyola 6-4, 6-4 and Jesus Rodriguez of Dillard 6-2, 6-2.
 
        Langa, in her XULA debut, defeated
 Loyola's  Micaela Ponce 4-6, 6-3, 1-0 (10-4) in the women's A-singles,
  and she teamed with 
McKenna Wheatley to defeat Dillard's Valentina Gomez and 
	 Itzel Lara 6-1 to reach the doubles semifinals.
	 
	         The four-school tournament —
	  the women of NCAA Division I Southeastern Louisiana also are competing —
		 will conclude Saturday at Dillard's facility at the back of the campus.