DECATUR – The No. 19 Jones Bobcats defeated No. 20 East Central 5-4 here Tuesday afternoon at the East Central Community College Tennis Complex.
The Jones women are now 11-0 on the season.The Bobcats will not play again until they host Wallace St.-Hanceville (Alabama) at 1 p.m. on March 23.
East Central (8-4) ravels to Mississippi Gulf Coast on Friday.
No. 19 Bobcats 5, No. 20 Warriors 4
Jones won two of the doubles matches.
Bella Chela (South Africa) and
Judith Mills (South Pontotoc) downed Natalia Beltran and Alejandra Vargas in No. 1 doubles, 8-4, and
Brooke Chism (Pontotoc) and
Stori Endt (Vancleave) whipped Kayla Baucum and Maria Graham in No. 3 doubles, 8-1.
Danielle Viljoen (Jackson) and
Dixie Lei Hodges (Laurel Christian School) lost 7-9 in No. 2 doubles to Josie Hurst and Ali Grace Walker.
Viljoen beat Vargas in No. 2 singles, 6-0, 6-2. Hodges rallied past Hurst, 1-6, 7-6, 10-7 in No. 4 singles and Chism downed Baucum in No. 5 singles, 6-1, 6-4. Chela fell to Beltran in No. 1 singles, 6-3, 4-6, 1-10, Mills lost to Walker in No. 3 singles, 6-1, 4-7, 6-10 and Endt lost to Graham in No. 6 singles, 4-6, 4-6.
