Women's Tennis Sweeps MEAC Weekend Slate

HAMPTON, VA & LEWES, DE --- Howard's women's tennis team continued its winning ways by claiming a pair of MEAC road victories against Hampton University and Delaware State University. The Lady Bison swept the Lady Pirates, 4-0, and defeated the Lady Hornets, 4-1.

Howard's two wins pushed the Lady Bison's win streak to seven games and improved their MEAC conference mark to 3-0.

In the Hampton match, HU claimed victories at No.1, No. 2 and No. 4 singles while the No. 3, No. 5 and No. 6 flights went unfinished. Katelyn Stokes and Maame Osei shut out their opponents, 6-0, 6-0, while Umarah Mughnee lost only one game in a 6-0, 6-1 victory.

In doubles, the duos of Stokes & Brooke Hawthorne (No. 1) and Mughnee & Stacey Roheman (No. 3) each defeated Hampton 8-0, while Osei & Jessica Josiah's No. 2 doubles matchup went unfinished as well.

HU would keep the momentum going the next day at Delaware State. Stokes, Roheman and Osei earned singles victories in the No. 1 (6-2. 6-3), No. 3 (6-0, 6-1) and No. 4 (6-3, 6-3) flights while Josiah and Hawthorne were unable to finish their No. 5 and No. 6 matches.

The Lady Bison went 2-0 in doubles action to give HU their final margin of victory. Stokes & Hawthorne won their second lead doubles match of the weekend with an impressive 8-1 triumph while Osei & Josiah took the weekend split with an 8-1 win in No. 2 doubles; Mughnee & Roheman were unable to complete their match.

Men's Tennis Win Streak Snapped By Hampton

HAMPTON, VA --- The Howard and Hampton men's tennis teams played each other close in an impressive matchup on Saturday but the Bison men were narrowly edged by the Pirates, 4-3.

The singles slate was evenly split, 3-3, with the trio fo Williams Jones, Ismael Kaouche and Myron Davis earning victories in the top three flights while Laguna Foster, Nico Sorrell and Nile Kendall stumbled in the latter three flights.

With the No. 2 doubles match going unfinished, the final two games would determine the match. Hampton's No. 3 duo easily defeated Sorrell and Kendall, 8-1, leaving the game in the hands of the No. 1 duo of Davis & Kaouche. However, Howard was unable to tie the contest as they fell, 8-6, conceding the match in the process.

Women's Lacrosse Drop Back-to-Back Contests

NEW BRITIAN, CT & WASHINGTON, DC --- Freshman midfielder Tianna Clark netted a career high three goals for the Lady Bison in Saturday's road game against the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils on the losing end of a 22-7 outcome. Clark scored her hat trick in the first half and now has five goals on the season.

Junior midfielder Jaymie Cox scored a pair of goals for Howard, both late in the first half and early in the second half. Freshman attack Asyiah Frank and senior attack Cynithia Smalls scored a goal apiece - Frank's first of the season and Smalls' eighth.

Freshman goalie Jasmine Wilson stopped 10-of-32 shots on the afternoon.

On Sunday, Howard played its first home game of the 2014 season against Presbyterian College, a matchup that had been scheduled twice previously due to poor weather conditions. Those conditions found their way into the game once it began, as the teams played the entire game in rain and a snow storm. Presbyterian would survive the elements and walk away with a 16-9 win over Howard (0-8).

Smalls had her best game of the season, scoring a team-high five goals while Cox had three goals and an assist and junior attack Michaela Jupiter added a goal.

The Blue Hose opened the game with two goals within the first three minutes. Both teams would alternate scores before Smalls put home two goals to tie the match at 4-4 halfway through the first.

Presbyterian would go on a 4-0 run to close the half with an 8-4 lead over the Lady Bison.

Smalls would score the first goal of the second half at the 27:43 mark to cut Presbyterian's lead to 8-5 but Howard would get no closer in the contest.