FORT MYERS Fla. – The FGCU women's tennis team (10-7, 4-0 A-Sun) extended its season-long win streak to five matches with its third straight 7-0 shutout, this one coming against USC Upstate (0-17, 0-3 A-Sun) Saturday afternoon at the FGCU Tennis Complex.
 
With the win, the Green and Blue remained perfect in conference play, matching their 4-0 start from a season ago, and have now tallied the most wins in a regular season since going 13-6 during the 2013-14 regular season.
 
"The girls competed very well again today," said FGCU head coach Courtney Vernon. "We're grateful to get the win and are looking forward to competing against UNF on Thursday."
 
Julia Ascúa (Santa Fe, Argentina/Domingo G. Silva) and Julianna Curtis (Tampa, Fla./Allendale Academy) continued to impress in the No. 2 position with a 6-1 win against Upstate's Anna Zoske and Ruby Kubac. It was the duo's fifth straight win as they improved to 11-2 overall and 10-1 in No. 2 doubles.
 
Shortly after, Elizabeth Means (Washington, D.C./Wiregrass Ranch HS) and Alexandra Landert (Zurich, Switzerland/Seton Hall), who returned to the courts for the first time since the end of February, registered a 6-3 win against Anna Nemeth and Meredith McGee in the No. 3 position to claim the cumulative point.
 
Almost momentarily, FGCU's top tandem of Breana Stampfli (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago/St. Joseph's Convent) and Joselyn Treyes Albarracin (Guayaquil, Ecuador/InterAmerican Academy) won by the same margin against Carol Sigaki and Vale Zarama.
 
Much like their match on Thursday, the Eagles maintained the early momentum from doubles play and won each of the six singles matches in straight sets.
 
Laura Falceto Font (Zaragoza, Spain/El Pilar Maristas Zaragoza) won her second consecutive match in straight points with a 6-0, 6-0 win against McGee, marking her eighth straight win as she improved to 9-1 in the No. 6 position.
 
Means then kept the Eagles hot streak going with a 6-1, 6-0 win against Kubac in the No. 5 position to bring FGCU within a point of improving to 4-0 in conference play, before Treyes Albarracin clinched the match with a 6-2, 6-1 win in No. 2 singles.
 
With the match already decided, Curtis registered a 6-1, 6-0 win in No. 4 singles, before Stampfli won by a 6-4, 6-0 margin in the top spot. Then, to cap of the afternoon, Ascua pushed her win streak to seven matches with a 6-3, 6-2 win against Sigaki in the No. 3 position.
 
Five Eagles are currently riding match win streaks of five or more and three have tallied double-digit wins during the dual-match season.
 
SATURDAY RESULTS
Doubles
No. 1 Doubles: Stampfli/Treyes Albarracin (FGCU) def. Sigaki/Zarama (Upstate): 6-3
No. 2 Doubles: Ascua/Curtis (FGCU) def. Zoske/Kubac (Upstate): 6-1
No. 3 Doubles: Landert/Means (FGCU) def. Nemeth/McGee (Upstate): 6-3
 
Singles
No. 1 Singles: Stampfli (FGCU) def. Zoske (Upstate): 6-4, 6-0
No. 2 Singles: Treyes Albarracin (FGCU) def. Zarama (Upstate): 6-2, 6-1
No. 3 Singles: Ascua (FGCU) def. Sigaki (Upstate): 6-3, 6-2
No. 4 Singles: Curtis (FGCU) def. Nemeth (Upstate): 6-1, 6-0
No. 5 Singles: Means (FGCU) def. Kubac (Upstate): 6-1, 6-0
No. 6 Singles: Falceto Font (FGCU) def. McGee (Upstate): 6-0, 6-0
 
Order of Finish: Doubles (2, 3, 1); Singles (6, 5, 2, 4, 1, 3)
 
UP NEXT
With only two regular-season matches remaining, FGCU hits the road for an in-state showdown with defending conference champion UNF Thursday, April 7 at 10 a.m. in Jacksonville, Fla. In 2015, the Ospreys ended the Eagles season with a 4-1 defeat in the program's first-ever A-Sun Championship Final. FGCU will then return to Fort Myers to host Stetson in the regular-season finale Saturday, April 9 at 5 p.m.
 
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HEAD COACH COURTNEY VERNON
FGCU's women's tennis team is led by Courtney Vernon, whose second season under the helm saw the Eagles finish third in the conference standings with the program's first-ever appearance in the Atlantic Sun Championship Final. She has produced nine A-Sun All-Conference selections and the 2014 A-Sun Freshman of the Year. She has led the Green and Blue to a 34-27 overall record (.557) and 14-4 conference record (.778) in her two-plus years at FGCU.
 
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