Liberty Hits the Road for Matches at No. 10 Wake Forest, Wofford
3/10/2018 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Live Video & Scoring for Liberty at Wake Forest
Live Scoring for Liberty at Wofford
Following a stretch of home matches, the Lady Flames tennis squad will be back on the road for the first time in over three weeks. Liberty (6-5) will play a pair of non-conference matches, first at No. 10 Wake Forest on Sunday, followed by a Monday tilt at Wofford.
Sunday's match between the Lady Flames (6-5) and Demon Deacons (10-4) will begin at 4 p.m. at the Wake Forest Tennis Complex in Winston-Salem, N.C., following Wake Forest's match against the Big South's Winthrop Eagles. Sunday's match against the Demon Deacons will mark the highest-ranked opponent Liberty has faced in sixth-year head coach Jeff Maren's tenure.
On Monday, Liberty will battle the Wofford Terriers (8-3) at 1 p.m. at the Reeves Tennis Center in Spartanburg, S.C.
After a slow start to the 2018 season, Liberty now stands at 6-5 overall, with all of its matches coming out of conference so far. The Lady Flames last competed a week ago, picking up a pair of victories (5-2 over UNCG and 7-0 over North Carolina A&T), last Saturday. The Lady Flames will kick off Big South competition next Wednesday against Campbell.
Wake Forest is on a two-match winning streak following victories against No. 30 Virginia Tech and Elon, last Sunday. Wofford will be looking to halt a two-match losing skid when the Lady Flames visit on Monday. The Terriers most recently fell to the UNC Asheville Bulldogs, 6-1, on Friday.
Series History
Liberty and Wake Forest will be meeting for the second straight year and second time ever. The No. 29 Demon Deacons topped the Lady Flames, 4-0, on Feb. 11, 2017 in Winston-Salem, N.C. in the first-ever meeting between the programs.
The Lady Flames and Wofford Terriers will be meeting for the fifth time ever and the third time in the last four years. Liberty took both matchups, 6-1, in 2015 and 2016. The all-time series is even at 2-2.
How to Follow the Lady Flames
Live statistics will be available for both the Liberty-Wake Forest and Liberty-Wofford matches. A live video stream for Sunday's match between the Lady Flames and Deacons will also be accessible. Find links for live scoring and live video on the women's tennis schedule page on LibertyFlames.com.
Lady Flames News and Notes
- Liberty has performed well in both doubles (22-7, .759) and singles (38-24, .613) in the spring. Head coach Jeff Maren has utilized nine different doubles combinations so far, with Evangeline Crist/Anna Dollar (5-0 No. 1) and Rebekah Anderson/Grace Hashiguchi (6-1) being the most successful pairings.
- Junior Lara Soares leads the way in singles with a 7-2 mark, which features a current seven-match winning streak that has spanned over a month. Polina Miroshnichenko (5-3), Ashley Bongart (5-3), Rebekah Anderson (4-2), Evangeline Crist (6-5), Anna Dollar (4-3) and Grace Hashiguchi (2-1) all have singles winning percentages above .500.
- Liberty has won the doubles session in seven consecutive matches. The Lady Flames have gone on to win five of those seven bouts.
- Senior captain Evangeline Crist is an impressive 12-1 in doubles, this season. She now has 85 career doubles victories and is just five from tying the program's all-time mark of 90, set by Valerie Thong (2013-16). Crist is also closing in on 80 career singles victories. The Lilburn, Ga., native currently has 78 solo victories for the Lady Flames.
- Liberty is picked to finish second in the Big South Conference for a third straight year and captured a share of the regular-season crown in both 2016 and 2017. Upon their return to Lynchburg, the Lady Flames will face Campbell in their Big South opener on Wednesday, a match rescheduled from March 1.
Scouting Wake Forest
The Demon Deacons have a pair of players inside the top 90 in the Oracle/ITA Division I Women's Singles Rankings in Emma Davis (No. 36) and Eliza Omirou (No. 88). Davis is 18-7 overall in singles completion, including an 11-2 mark in the spring and 10-2 mark in the No. 1 position in the lineup. Omirou boasted an 8-4 spring mark (7-4 No. 2 singles).
Wake Forest has a pair of doubles duos ranked in the national rankings as well – Davis and Chandler Carter (No. 31, 9-0 spring record) and Anna Ulyashchenko and Omirou (No. 66, 7-5 spring record). Jeff Wyshner is in his eighth season at the helm of the Wake Forest women's tennis program.
Scouting Wofford
The Terriers' strongest singles players in the spring so far are Jenna Vroman (9-2 No. 2) and Cassidy Hicks (7-4 No. 1). Vroman and Hicks play together in doubles and are 9-2 in the No. 1 slot in head coach Krissy Hall's lineup.
