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Although it needed a late comeback for the second consecutive contest, the No. 23 Tennessee women's tennis team beat No. 53 Virginia, 4-3, in Charlottesville, Va., on Sunday.

For the seventh time in eight matches this season, the Lady Vols (6-2) won the doubles point.

Sophomore Connor Vogel and freshman Jennifer Meredith teaming up to post an 8-6 victory over Jennifer Stevens and Hampton Williams at the No. 3 position.

Sophomores Caitlin Whoriskey and Zsofia Zubor, the No. 2-ranked doubles team in the nation, won 8-4 over Amanda Rales and Lara Alexander to push their record to 18-4.

Carrying the momentum from her doubles victory into singles, Vogel quickly put Tennessee up 2-0 with a 6-3, 6-0 victory over Cathy Nimitz, 6-2, 6-0 at No. 6.

Virginia rallied for three consecutive victories to take a 3-2 lead.

The first to get Virginia on the scoreboard was Lindsey Pereira who cruised to a 6-0, 6-2, victory over UT junior Samantha Orlin at the third slot in the lineup.

Shortly thereafter, Rales became the first player this spring to defeat the 66th-ranked Whoriskey, doing so by the score of 6-4, 6-1, on the center court.

The loss snapped the Boca Raton, Fla., product's perfect 7-0 record in dual-match play this year.

Just moments later, Maggie Yahner gave Virginia its first lead of the day at 3-2, with a straight-set, 6-3, 6-4, win over No. 90 Zubor on court four.

Needing victories in the day's final two matches, Meredith tied the match at 3 with a 6-2, 6-3 over Alexander at No. 5 singles.

Schutte then gave the Lady Vols the win with a 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3 victory.

The Lady Vols will close out a season-long six-match road trip with a pair of contests at Ole Miss on Friday and at Misissippi State on Sunday.

Women's Golf: Tennessee tied for eighth place after the first round at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico today.

The tournament, held at the par-72 Coco Beach Golf Course, is the first for the Lady Vols since November 2007.

Leading the 11th-ranked Lady Vols was sophomore Diana Cantu, who tied for 11th with a 1-over-par 73 today.

Senior Marci Turner and sophomore Angela Oh each shot a 74 to tie for 17th with 10 others.

Junior Nicole Smith tied for 62nd (78), while freshman Angela Oh ended the first round in a tie for 86th with a score of 82.

The team's total of 299 equals that of No. 28 South Carolina, No. 13 Purdue and No. 14 Kent State.

Defending NCAA champion, Stacy Lewis of Arkansas, is at the top of the leader board with a 4-under 68. Alabama and TCU are tied for first with team totals of 293.

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