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Men’s Tennis: No. 9 AASU 9, No. 32 Hawaii Hilo 0
Women's Tennis: No. 1 AASU 9, No. 10 Hawaii Hilo 0

HILO, Hawaii – The top-ranked Armstrong Atlantic State women's tennis squad blanked No. 10 Hawaii Hilo, 9-0, on Monday to set up Tuesday's showdown between the top two ranked teams in the land.The No. 9-ranked AASU men completed the dual match sweep with a 9-0 win over No. 32 Hawaii Hilo.

The defending DII national champion Lady Pirates stretched their current match winning streak to 43 by sweeping all three doubles matches and picking up staight set wins in all six singles matches. Luisa Cowper, Dziyana Nazaruk, Manuela Emmrich, Caroline Grage, Sofia Haggstrom and Kristen Kelly picked up singles wins in the match for AASU, who now head to BYU-Hawaii with that streak on the line against the Seasiders, who had won 130 straight matches when the Pirates took them out, 5-3, in the National Championship match last May.

The Pirate men, who fell seven spots in the latest DII men's tennis rankings released on Monday, swept all three doubles matches, then took all six singles matches. Davor Zink, Paul Bishop, Taavo Roos, David Secker and Cristian Easton all picked up straight set singles wins, while Robert Jendelund won a three-set match against Tomas Mikulasek at No. 3 singles, 6-1, 6-7 (5), (10-4).

The dual match will take place at 2:00 p.m. Hawaiian time. AASU's women last met BYU-Hawaii in Hawaii in March of 2001, a 9-0 win by the Seasiders.

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Women: No. 1 AASU 9, No. 10 Hawaii Hilo 0

Singles
1. Luisa Cowper (AASU) def. Mai Fuji (UHH) 6-0, 6-3
2. Dziyana Nazaruk (AASU) def. Tiana Lum-Tucker 6-2, 6-0
3. Manuela Emmrich (AASU) def. Wendy Owen (UHH) 6-2, 6-1
4. Caroline Grage (AASU) def. Sayaka Fukumoto (UHH) 6-4, 6-1
5. Kristen Kelly (AASU) def. Nicole Campbell (UHH) 7-6 (4), 6-2
6. Sofia Haggstrom (AASU) def. Carolina Ardila (UHH) 6-1, 6-0

Doubles
1. Cowper/Stupak (AASU) def. Fuji/Lum-Tucker (UHH) 8-3
2. Grage/Emmrich (AASU) def. Campbell/Fukumoto (UHH) 8-4
3. Dahlback/Nazaruk (AASU) def. Arianne Arao/Owen (UHH) 8-2
Records: AASU (13-0), Hawaii Hilo (4-3)

Men: No. 9 AASU 9, No. 32 Hawaii Hilo 0

Singles
1. Davor Zink (AASU) def. Christian Schonau (UHH) 6-4, 6-4
2. Paul Bishop (AASU) def. Daniel Pollock (UHH) 6-3, 6-0
3. Robert Jendelund (AASU) def. Tomas Mikulasek (UHH) 6-1, 6-7 (5), (10-4)
4. Taavo Roos (AASU) def. Mitchel Gelina (UHH) 6-0, 6-0
5. David Secker (AASU) def. Lars Melskens (UHH) 6-2, 6-2
6. Cristian Easton (AASU) def. Fuyuki Samejima (UHH) 6-1, 6-3

Doubles
1. Jendelund/Roos (AASU) def. Melskens/Schonau (UHH) 8-3
2. Bishop/Secker (AASU) def. Pollock/Samejima (UHH) 9-7
3. Easton/Zink (AASU) def. Gelina/Mikulasek (UHH) 8-2
Records: AASU (10-3), Hawaii Hilo (3-8)