Seniors Come Up Big in JMU’s 4-1 Win Over Southern Miss

Saturday, March 25

Harrisonburg, Va.

1 p.m.

James Madison University

Southern Miss

Seniors Come Up Big in JMU’s 4-1 Win Over Southern Miss

3/25/2023 7:54:00 PM | Women's Tennis

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HARRISONBURG, Va. – James Madison's senior trio registered wins at the top three singles spots to lead the Dukes to a 4-1 Sun Belt Conference women's tennis victory against Southern Miss on Saturday afternoon at Hillside Courts.

The Dukes improved to 8-5 on the year and 4-0 in Sun Belt play, while the Golden Eagles dropped to 6-5 overall and 1-3 in conference matches.

JMU won two of three doubles matches and claimed singles victories on courts one, two and three to move to 3-0 at home in 2023.

Daria Afanasyeva and Daniela Voloh each went 2-0 on the afternoon, while Kylie Moulin added a win at the top singles slot.

HOW IT HAPPENED
Doubles Play

USM took the early advantage on court one, as Alyssa Richter and Ebru Yazgan defeated Kylie Moulin and Ines Oliveira, 6-2.
Shortly after, the team of Daria Munteanu and Voloh dispatched Suhana Das and Clara Tardivel, 6-2.
Trailing early, Afanasyeva and Reka Matko rallied past Zenn Lim and Maddison Ricardo, 6-4, on court three to clinch the doubles point.

Singles Play

Lim tied the match at 1-1 on court four, earning a 6-1, 6-0 victory against Oliveira.
At the time of the first match's completion, Southern Miss was leading on three of the five remaining courts.
The Dukes regained the lead, at 2-1, as Kylie Moulin beat Yazgan in straight sets with a 6-2, 6-4 triumph.
Afanasyeva pulled away on court two, taking down Das by scores of 6-4, 6-2.
On the final three courts, JMU rallied to win the second set at Nos. three, five and six, needing just one to fall the Dukes' way to secure the team win.
Voloh was able to come through on court three, as she came back to defeat Tardivel, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, to clinch JMU's 13th straight win against a conference foe, dating back to the 2020-21 season.
The final two bouts went unfinished with either JMU up or tied.
Munteanu was just ahead of Ricardo on court five at 5-7, 6-3, 3-2, while Hope Moulin had just evened the score with Hannah Chambers, at 2-6, 6-4, 3-3.

Senior Trio All Rank Top 10 in Every Wins Category

Following Saturday's win, the JMU senior class of Daniela Voloh, Kylie Moulin and Daria Afanasyeva all rank top-10 all-time at JMU in all three wins categories.
In singles, Voloh moved past Jona Roka (2016-21) for second place with her 83rd victory. She is just three shy of Emma Peterson's (2015-19) record of 86.
Moulin has 65 singles wins, ranking ninth, while Afanasyeva slid past Megan Douglass (2009-13) for 10th, at 62.
In doubles, Afanasyeva is third with 74 wins, followed by Voloh's 67, good for a tie for fourth, and Moulin at 10th with 57. Voloh's win Saturday also tied her with Peterson in the doubles category.
In combined victories, Voloh has 150 total wins (third), Afanasyeva has 136 (sixth) and Moulin rounds out the class with 122 (eighth).