BETHUNE-COOKMAN 5, N.C. CENTRAL 2 (Results)
S.C. STATE 4, N.C. CENTRAL 3 (Results)

FLORENCE, S.C. – Senior Rebecca Wood only lost four total games in a pair of singles wins for the North Carolina Central University women's tennis team but the Lady Eagles fell to a pair of Mid-Eastern Athletic Conferene Southern Division rivals in Bethune-Cookman University and South Carolina State University on Sunday at the Dr. Eddie Floyd Florence Tennis Center.

The Wildcats of Bethune-Cookman won the first match of the day, 5-2, before the defending MEAC Tournament champion Bulldogs of S.C. State held on for a 4-3 win in the second duel.

NCCU slipped to 3-9 overall a 1-3 in the MEAC. 

The two points for the Lady Eagles against Bethune-Cookman were impressive ones as Wood and sophomore Lynsey Cover both defeated a pair of all-conference honorees from a year ago. Wood knocked off first team All-MEAC performer Chinatsu Kajiwara while Cover disposed of second team honoree Gaby Chinchilla. 

NCCU won doubles against S.C. State and got singles wins from Wood and senior Ekaterina Nekrasova. 

Wood and Nekrasova partnered for an 8-4 win in the middle doubles match and Cover teamed up with freshman Jamie Rogers for an 8-3 triumph in the third flight as the Lady Eagles captured the first team point winning doubles by a 2-1 score.

Junior Aissa Muamba lost both of her matches playing in the top singles position but both affairs were close matches against stiff opposition. Muamba nearly won the second set in her 6-2, 7-5 loss against reigning MEAC Player of the Year Mina Matsuba (B-CU). The Laval, Canada, native then took another all-conference award winner to the brink in Intissar Rassif (SCSU) in a 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 loss.

Wood (6-5) moved over .500 in singles with her two W's. 

NCCU heads to the coast next visiting UNC Wilmington on Friday (Mar. 20) at 2 p.m.