HAMPTON, Va. – Playing in its final regular-season Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference matchup, the Lady Pirates tennis team blanked Maryland Eastern Shore 7-0 on Thursday morning.

The Lady Pirates clinched the top-seed out of the MEAC Northern Division for the 2018 MEAC Tennis Championships starting on April 26 at the Folkes-Stevens Tennis Center at Old Dominion University.  This is the second year in a row that Hampton earned the top-seed from the north after making the finals last year losing to South Carolina State.

Hampton (9-7, 6-0) won the two contested doubles matches as UMES didn't field a third doubles tandem.  Mariam Mitaishvili and Yulia Kapitanova won 6-0 at line one and the tandem of Haley Mullins and Ana Romanova won 6-0 at line two.

In singles, Hampton won four of the five singles matches 6-0, 6-0 as Kapitanova, Cherise Slocombe, Mullins and Julia d'Auvergne all won by shutout. 

For more information on Hampton University women's tennis, please contact the Office of Sports Information at 757-727-5757 or visit the official Pirates website at www.hamptonpirates.com.