DeLAND, Fla. – Host Stetson defeated the Eastern Kentucky University women’s tennis team Wednesday afternoon, 7-0. The Colonels (5-10) dropped all three matches on their spring break trip.

Freshman Catarina Branco (No. 6) played the closest match of the day. Branco won the opening set of her match before falling in a super tie-breaker to Stetson’s Jacqueline Faulk, 13-11.

“We were certainly more competitive than the scores indicated today,” EKU head coach Rob Oertel said.

The Colonels return home to begin OVC play on Saturday, March 20 with matches against Murray State and Tennessee State.

Stetson 7, Eastern Kentucky 0

Singles
1. Carolina de los Santos (STET) def. Jessica Albuquerque (EKU) 6-0, 6-0
2. Valentina Galbarini (STET) def. Myriem Mhirit (EKU) 6-2, 6-2
3. Unnati Purushotham (STET) def. Anouk Faure (EKU) 6-3, 6-2
4. Shannon Gunning (STET) def. Anais Hamel (EKU) 6-1, 6-2
5. Katherine Nowicki (STET) def. Esmira Gheisary (EKU) 6-1, 6-1
6. Jacqueline Faulk (STET) def. Catarina Branco (EKU) 3-6, 6-4, (13-11)

Doubles
1. de los Santos/Galbarini (STET) def. Faure/Hamel (EKU) 8-4
2. Gunning/Purushotham (STET) def. Albuquerque/Gheisary (EKU) 8-2
3. Atkinson/Nowicki (STET) def. Branco/Mhirit (EKU) 8-3

Match Notes: Eastern Kentucky (5-10); Stetson (8-3)
Order of Finish: Doubles (3, 2, 1); Singles (4, 1, 5*, 2, 3, 6)