Women's Tennis Hosts Dayton For Senior Day

Saturday, April 6

Cincinnati, Ohio

2 PM

Xavier University

Dayton

04.05.24 | Women's Tennis

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Musketeers face Flyers at 2 PM on Saturday at Jim and Mary Brockhoff Family Tennis Facility

By: Hayley Schletker, Xavier Athletic Communications

CINCINNATI - Xavier women's tennis celebrates Senior Day on Saturday, April 6, hosting the Dayton Flyers at the Jim and Mary Brockhoff Family Tennis Facility, set for a 2:00 p.m. start.

Following the match, the Musketeers will honor seniors Imani Graham and Blessing Nwaozuzu, as well as redshirt-senior Anna Roggenburk.

The Musketeers are 13-5 on the season after splitting a pair of matches in Tennessee last weekend, topping No. 57 VCU and falling to ETSU

DAYTON INFO

The Flyers are 7-8 on the season with a 1-0 record against A10 schools.
UD went 8-13 overall and 2-4 in A10 play last season. The Flyers fell 4-0 to Davidson in the first round of the A10 Championship.
Xavier has won 21 straight against the Flyers after taking a 7-0 win in Dayton last season.

WEEKLY AWARDS

After extending her singles win streak to 13 matches, Xavier women's tennis' Sofia Mazzucato was named the BIG EAST Singles Player of the Week, the league office announced on Monday.
Mazzucato, a freshman from Houston, Texas, now has a team-best 14 singles wins for her rookie season after going 2-0 over the weekend.
Against No. 57 VCU, Mazzucato took a 6-3, 6-1 win in the No. 5 spot to help Xavier to a 4-1 win. Against ETSU, Mazzucato picked up a 6-2, 6-4 win in the No. 4 spot to pick up a point for the Musketeers and keep her win streak alive.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE

Xavier wraps up the regular season with a trip to a pair of BIG EAST opponents next weekend, facing Marquette on Friday, April 12 in Milwaukee, before facing DePaul on Saturday, April 13 in Chicago.
The Musketeers will then travel to Cayce, S.C. for the BIG EAST Championships, set to begin on Thursday, April 18.

LAST TIME OUT

Xavier women's tennis fell to ETSU, 4-1, on Sunday afternoon.
In doubles play, ETSU took a 6-2 win on the No. 1 court against Anna Roggenburk and Imani Graham, and then a 6-2 win on the No. 2 court against Abby Nugent and Ellie Brotherton to clinch the point.
In singles play, Xavier took a 6-2, 6-4 win on the No. 4 for Sofia Mazzucato, her 13th-straight singles win.
ETSU picked up wins on the No. 1 court, 6-2, 7-6 (1), against Imani Graham, on the No. 2 court, 6-0, 6-3, against Anna Roggenburk, and a 6-4, 6-1 win over Ellie Brotheton on the No. 6 court to set the final score at 4-1.

THE MUSKETEERS

Xavier returns six from last year's squad that brought home the program's third-straight, and fourth overall, BIG EAST Championship and earned Xavier's fourth bid to the NCAA Championships.
The 2022-23 Musketeers finished the season 14-8 overall with a 6-0 record against BIG EAST opponents.
Among Xavier's returnees are 2023 BIG EAST Player of the Year, Imani Graham, and BIG EAST Freshman of the Year, Abby Nugent.
Anna Roggenburk, Blessing Nwaozuzu, Emily Flowers and Abigail Siminski also return for the Musketeers.
Xavier added a pair of freshmen, Ellie Brotherton and Sofia Mazzucato.
The Musketeers also added Elizabeth Pendergast, a transfer from Cincinnati, who joined the program in the 2024 spring semester.