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.