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NORFOLK, Va. – Singles wins by senior Aissa Muamba, junior Lynsey Cover and sophomore Jamie Rogers clinched a 4-2 win for North Carolina Central University over Norfolk State University in the quarterfinals of the 2016 MEAC Women's Tennis Championship Thursday morning at the Folkes-Stevens Tennis Center at Old Dominion University.
 
The fourth-seeded Lady Eagles from the Southern Division won doubles to start the opening-round victory over the North's top-seeded Spartans.
 
NCCU (6-12 overall) has won three consecutive matches, including two straight against Norfolk State (9-11). The Lady Eagles advance to the semifinals and will play the winner of the Florida A&M University versus Morgan State University match on Friday at 9 a.m. NCCU will be playing in the semifinals for the fourth time in the past five years, but the Lady Eagles have yet to advance to the championship match.
 
The Spartans swept doubles against NCCU in the regular season just four days earlier. The Lady Eagles did not want to be in that same hole again and came out with a pair of wins in the top two doubles matches to secure the first team point.
 
Muamba and Rogers were triumphant, 6-3, on court one to level their record together at 5-5. After Norfolk State won the third doubles match by the same 6-3 margin, senior Mia Ramic and freshman Jasmine Gabriel won a hard-fought middle bout, 7-5, to finish off the doubles conquest.
 
NCCU picked up all three of its singles wins in straight sets.
 
Muamba dominated her marquee match by a 6-1, 6-2 score while Rogers (6-2, 6-3) and Cover (6-0, 6-4) needed just a game or two more in completing their convincing wins on courts four and five, respectively.
 
Muamba, who was named First Team All-MEAC on Tuesday, increased her senior-year singles record to 11-5. The Laval, Canada, product is NCCU's NCAA Division I era record holder with 58 career singles wins.
 
Rogers (11-6) matches Muamba with 11 singles wins in 2016 and Cover (3-13) won for a third consecutive match. Ramic – a Second Team All-MEAC honoree – won her first set 7-6 with a 7-2 tiebreaker, but her match was stopped midway through the second set after NCCU claimed the team victory.