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April 3, 2010
FAYETTEVILLE - Friends and Family Day proved to be a success for Fayetteville State on Saturday. In front of their largest crowd of the season, the Broncos topped St. Augustine's 5-4 to win their first home match of the year. FSU (3-11, 2-9 CIAA) dropped the second match to the Falcons 6-3. "I'm glad that we had a really good turnout today," said FSU Head Coach Arie Bennett. "That was my main goal, to just get some support out for the girls. It feels great to get a win." The first game saw freshman Shantana Donegan (Brooklyn, NY), FSU's No. 1 singles player, top Brittany Shim 8-6 and Amber Mitchell (Red Springs, NC), playing No. 2 singles, best Kira Edgehill 8-1. The Falcons' Martinne Deronette beat FSU's Kristy Mitchell (Fayetteville, NC) 8-1 while FSU's Danielle Boone (Hallsboro, NC) and Tiane Ellis (Fayetteville, NC) won their matches 8-3. The team of Schanelle Ebanks (Irvington, NJ) and Boone got the Broncos' only doubles victory via an 8-3 win. Shim and Edgehill beat FSU's Donegan and Kristy Mitchell 8-5 and Martinna and Martinne Deronette downed Ellis and Amber Mitchell 8-6. Bennett said she was impressed with her team's play. "Shantana (Donegan) did really good," said Bennett. "She just had some minor mistakes. Also, Amber (Mitchell) losing doubles and coming back to win singles was really good." "I just told her to get revenge and she came back and did that. Tiane (Ellis) really did step up today during singles. She moved her feet a lot better, getting around and hitting balls like she's supposed to."
SAC won all three doubles matches en route to its 6-3 win in the second game. Donegan, Amber Mitchell and Ebanks won their matches and gave the Broncos their three points. Donegan defeated Shim 8-3, Amber Mitchell topped Edgehill 8-2 while Ebanks won her match 8-5. In doubles play, Kristy Mitchell and Donegan won 11 games but fell to Edgehill and Shim 8-8, 7-3. "Overall, in doubles we both made mistakes," said Donegan. "We know what we need to work on moving forward. As far as me and singles, I did way better than I did in my doubles." FSU hosts Shaw on Tuesday at 1 p.m. before closing out the regular season with a home tilt against the University of North Carolina at Pembroke on Saturday at 1 p.m. |
