ORLANDO, Fla. – After a week off, the Fire bounced back and returned to the win column on Tuesday. Southeastern swept through doubles and recorded a pair of shutouts and three-set wins for the 6-1 victory over Davenport University.
Irene Parigi guided the Fire efforts as she was a perfect 18-0 in the games she played between third doubles and fifth singles. Alessia Ciampi also shut out her sixth singles foe as the other top performance and part of a second doubles win.
Parigi and Isabella Bolivar Garces made quick work of the Lady Panthers' Erin Hack and Valentina Moreno in third doubles. Ciampi and Martina Picardi wrapped up the SEU doubles point when the duo defeated Davenport's Amy Boch and Lotte Federski by a 6-4 final at second doubles.
Parigi and Ciampi did not take long and extended the Fire lead to 3-0 with their 6-0, 6-0 shutout of Hack and Moreno in fifth and sixth singles.
Bolivar Garces clinched the SEU win as she finished next in a 6-2, 6-3 match in the third seed over Skye Vandeleur.
Both Neleah Neiberline and Picardi battled back from dropping the opening set for three-set wins. Neiberline did not win a game in set one against Federski, losing 0-6, but she stormed back for a 6-3 win in set two and the and eventual tiebreaker set, 10-6.
Picardi was edged in the first (2-6), but bounced back and won the second set tiebreaker, 7-6, over Boch. The Fire tennis player completed the comeback with a 10-5 third set and match win at the second singles spot.
Carlotta Nonnis Marzano and Irene Lopez won the top doubles pairing as their match finished last by a 6-4 final over Davenport's Sienna Opray/Vandeleur.
Opray outlasted Nonnis Marzano for the lone Lady Panther win by a scoring line of 3-6, 7-6, 10-7.
The Fire return to action tomorrow in a 1 p.m. match-up with Warner University at the Beerman Tennis Center in Lakeland.
