Women's Tennis Set to Take on Seton Hall in BIG EAST Quarterfinals

CAYCE, S.C. - Xavier women's tennis opens up BIG EAST Championship action on Friday, April 27 when the No. 4 seeded Musketeers take on No. 5 Seton Hall in the BIG EAST Championship Quarterfinals. Xavier finished the regular season 12-10 overall and 5-2 in BIG EAST play, including a win over Seton Hall.

Xavier is 6-3 all-time in BIG EAST Championship matches, including winning the title in 2016.

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THE OPPONENT

The Pirates enter the tournament as the fifth-seed after finishing the regular season 7-10 overall, including 3-3 against BIG EAST competition. During the season, Seton Hall topped the conference No. 2 seed DePaul 4-3 on March 31.

SHU was last in action on April 21, when the Pirates topped Butler, 6-1, in Indianapolis

EARLIER THIS SEASON

The Pirates and Musketeers faced off last weekend, with Xavier coming away with the 4-3 win.

Xavier took the 1-0 lead on the doubles point, coming back from a 6-2 loss for Bagerbaseh and Zoe Manion on No. 3 doubles with a 6-4 win for Rachael Reichenbach and Ahmeir Kyle in No. 2 doubles. Ghidotti and Sophia Abelson secured the win by taking No. 1 doubles, 6-4.

Xavier went ahead 2-0 after Abelson won convincingly in two sets, 6-0, 6-1, in No. 3 singles. The Musketeer lead extended to 3-0 after Bagerbaseh took No. 5 singles, 6-2, 6-3.

Seton Hall would come back to tie the match up. The Pirates took No. 4 singles, 6-3, 6-1 over Reichenbach, for the team's first point to cut the Xavier lead to 3-1.

SHU cut the lead to 3-2 after taking No. 1 singles, 6-3, 6-4, over Kyle, and then tied it up 3-3 with a win in No. 6 singles, 6-4, 6-2, over Lauren Fitz-Randolph.

The deciding point came down Ghidotti in No. 2 singles. The senior took the first set 7-6 after multiple tiebreakers. In the second set, Ghidotti jumped out to a lead again, but SHU's Anicka Fajnorova kept within striking distance, behind only 6-5 after all the other matches had concluded before Ghidotti took the 7-5 win to secure the match for the Musketeers.

UP NEXT

The winner of the match-up between Xavier and Seton Hall advances to the BIG EAST Semifinals to play the winner of the match between No. 1 St. John's and No. 8 Georgetown. That match would take place at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 28.

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