MISENHEIMER, N.C. - The Brevard College women's tennis team (10-3, 3-1 USA South) picked up a pivotal 5-4 victory on the road over Pfeiffer University (11-2, 2-2 USAS) on Tuesday afternoon in Misenheimer, North Carolina. 

The victory gives the Tornados wins in eight of their last nine matches as Brevard improved to 3-1 in conference action. 

Brevard won two out of three doubles matches and picked up three singles victories to clinch the match victory, 5-4. 

Number-two doubles duo of Sophie Trantham and Brooke Garland defeated Pfeiffer's Riley Isley and Elithe Hudson 8-4, while Hamrick Perry and Savannah Anderson dropped Emily Moore and Delaney Geygan in number-three doubles play, 8-4. BC's top-flight doubles team of Hannah Hersh and Alli Kogoy, who are two-time USA South Conference Doubles Team of the Week selections, were bested 8-4 in their number-one doubles match. 

Hersh and Kogoy bounced back in singles play to pick up a pair of crucial victories for the Tornados. Hersh defeated Megan Rekieta 6-4 in the first set before falling 3-6 in set number two. The third and deciding set fell in favor of Hersh, 6-3 as the Tornados picked up a pivotal singles win. 

Kogoy cruised in her number-two singles win over PU's Hudson, 6-2, 6-1. The host Falcons were able to claim singles wins in no. 3, 4, and 6, but Perry defeated Moore in a two-set win in number-five singles action, 6-1, 6-2. 

Brevard will return to action on the road Friday when the Tornados take on Mary Baldwin University in Staunton, Virginia at 11 a.m. 

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