Lady Flames Prepared for 2 ASUN Matches, Saturday and Sunday
3/22/2019 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Live Scoring: Liberty at Kennesaw State
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The Lady Flames tennis team will play ASUN matches on back-to-back days, Saturday and Sunday.
Liberty will first take on the Kennesaw State Owls, Saturday at 1 p.m. Eastern at the Betty Siegel Tennis Courts in Kennesaw, Ga. The Lady Flames will then compete against the North Alabama Lions on Sunday at 11 a.m. Eastern at the UNA Varsity Courts. The Liberty-UNA match was originally pegged for Monday morning but was moved up a day due to impending inclement weather in Florence, Ala.
The Lady Flames currently hold a 7-6 overall record and 0-1 mark in the ASUN. Liberty went 2-1 in three matches last week, defeating Florida Atlantic and Chattanooga before falling to Florida Gulf Coast in its ASUN opener, last Sunday.
Kennesaw State is 1-11 on the season and will be playing its first ASUN match of the year, Saturday. The Owls will be looking to snap a three-match losing streak.
North Alabama is 5-8 overall and will take on Lipscomb on Saturday to open its ASUN slate prior to facing Liberty on Sunday morning. The Lions have won two of their last three contests but lost their most recent one against Austin Peay, Wednesday.
Both Kennesaw State and North Alabama are first-time opponents for the Lady Flames.
How to Follow the Lady Flames
Kennesaw State Athletics Communications and North Alabama Athletic Communications will both provide live scoring for Saturday and Sunday. Find the links on the schedule page of LibertyFlames.com/womenstennis. Also, follow @LibertyWTennis on Twitter for periodic updates throughout the weekend.
Lady Flames News and Notes
- Junior Kalani Soli earned Liberty's first-ever ASUN Women's Tennis Player of the Week honor on Wednesday. Soli won all five of her matches (three singles, two doubles) last week in Florida.
- The Lady Flames have captured the doubles point in five straight matches. During that stretch, Liberty is 4-1. The Lady Flames' top two duos, Maria Medina and Lara Soares (No. 1) and Grace Hashiguchi and Kalani Soli (No. 2), are each 4-0.
- Senior Anna Dollar has won her last six singles matches. She currently has 61 singles victories (13 in 2018-19), which places her seventh in program history for career singles wins. She is also fifth in school history in career doubles triumphs with 72.
- Liberty was picked as the ASUN preseason co-favorite in the 2019 ASUN Conference Women's Tennis Preseason Coaches Poll. Kennesaw State and North Alabama were picked to finish seventh and eighth in the league, respectively.
- This weekend's matches will wrap up a stretch of 12 consecutive matches away from Lynchburg. The Lady Flames' only home match was on Feb. 2, a 7-0 victory over Navy. They will host ASUN foe Lipscomb, next Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Cook Tennis Center.
