ETTRICK, VA – Virginia State University women's tennis team took on a tough West Virginia State University team in a fall exhibition match. The team lost 1-7 but head coach Ronald Raspberry said the final scores were not indicative of how the matches actually went.

"Playing against a talent team like that, the young team performed well, we were just on the opposite end of a ton of 30-40 and deuced games in the matches" said Coach Raspberry.
 
Match Results
Ginger Johnson/Eboni Goring 0 | 6 Gaya Soloman/Chante Malo
Ashleigh Charles/Brooklyn 1 | 6 Tuva Wallin/Lea Rolland
Jayce Gaither/Zimaris Smith 0 | 6 Maya Haidari/Julia Daszkiwicz

Court #1
Ginger Johnson 1 | 6 Gaya Soloman
                          0 | 6
Court #2
Ashleigh Charles 0 | 6 Tuva Wallin
                            1 | 6
Court #3
Eboni Goring 3 | 6 Julia Daszkiwicz
                      6 | 3
                    10 | 4
Court #4
Brooklyn Bowen 2 | 6 Chante Malo
                           0 | 6
Court #5
Jayce Gaither 0 | 6 Maya Haidari
                       2 | 6
 
The lone Trojan that won her match was Eboni Goring as she earned the first win of her collegiate career. Goring fell in her first set 6-3 but Coach Raspberry could see that she over playing and a little nervous in her first match dropping the first set 3-6. During the middle of the second set, she began to loosen up thanks to better selections, which gave her the win in the second set 6-3. The third and final set was decided by a ten-point tiebreaker. After a  4-1 start, Goring went on to take the tiebreak set 10-4.

"By the tiebreak set I could tell her game was hitting on all cylinders and I knew that she on her way to her first college win."

Next up
The women's tennis squad will be back in action March 5, 2022 against Virginia Union University. The home match will commence at 1:00 p.m.