WISE – The UVA Wise Tennis Team hosted 40^th-ranked Tusculum in both the season finale and the final game of Coach Danny Rowland's tenure on the sidelines Monday afternoon.

Coach Rowland joined the program in 1991 and over the years has coached over 800 games as both the men's and women's head coach. He has 341 career victories. When he started coaching, the school was named Clinch Valley College and was a member of the Tennessee Valley Athletic Conference (now the Appalachian Athletic Conference). Over the decades the school has moved to the Mid-South Conference, then to the NCAA and the Mountain East Conference, and finally to the South Atlantic Conference.

Rowland played for the Highland Cavs as well and graduated in 1984.

Today's match was moved from earlier this season due to weather and because the regular season technically ended Sunday the match was played under the same rules as the SAC Tournament where play is halted whenever the doubles point is attained, and the fourth match point is reached.

INSIDE THE MATCHUP
Final Score: Tusculum 4, UVA Wise 2
Records: UVA Wise (9-13, 2-10 SAC); Tusculum (14-7, 8-4)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
- UVA Wise claimed the match point as Christina Korakopoulou and Abiela Wang won 6-3 in the third flight, while Lucy Cunliffe and Amanda Monteith claimed a 6-3 win at the second flight.
- The Pioneers claimed wins at the second and fourth singles flights to take the 2-1 lead. 
- Constanca Azinhaga needed three sets to tie the match at 2-2 with her 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 win in the fourth flight.
- Tusculum then took the first flight to re-take the lead, 3-2. 
- Amelia Monteith claimed a 6-2 win in the first set and was ahead 1-0 in the second at the fifth flight when Tusculum claimed a win in the third flight to take the match by a 4-2 margin. 
 
UP NEXT
The UVA Wise women's tennis team will return in the fall.