LYNCHBURG, Va. – The team of Ashira Murray and Gaia Montecchi and advanced to the third round of doubles championship at the ITA Atlantic Regional at Liberty University. This marks the first time in program history a Towson that a team advanced this far at the ITA regionals.

Murray and Montecchi defeated Georgetown's Ruhika Bhat and Liya Chu 8-4 in the first round on Friday afternoon then rallied to beat Virginia Tech's Lamija Avdic and Sirena Waas 8-6 on Saturday afternoon– winning the final five games of the match before losing to Maryland's Mila Mulready and Anastasiia Sorska 8-2 in the round of 16 on Sunday afternoon. Seven of the 10 games went to deuce, but Murray and Montecchi only managed to win two of those opportunities.

"They had an outstanding tournament and should be very proud," said Towson head coach Jamie Peterson. "Looking around today, it was really just the Power Four schools, Old Dominion and us. Our doubles play has improved this fall and we look forward to that improvement impacting our matches in the spring."       
                                             
Four Towson University women's tennis players qualified for the annual event featuring 23 teams in the region.

Towson's top doubles team of Kiersten Tambe and Chandrè Boshoff lost to Old Dominion's Ulyana Romanova and Uldadzislava Manzhos 8-7 in the opening round – dropping the tiebreaker 8-6. Romanova and Manzhos are in the quarterfinals, winning matches 8-2 and 8-3.

Tambe and Montecchi also played in the singles championship.

Tambe lost in straight sets to No. 9 seed Diya Challa of Maryland in the first round of the main draw on Friday and lost in a tiebreaker to Virginia Tech's Madeleine Rexroat on Saturday after winning the opening set 6-2.

Montecchi did not advance out of the singles qualifying – losing a three-set match to Marshall's Sarah Copley on Thursday (4-6,7-5,4-6).

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