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RICHMOND, VA--  The Lady Eagles fall to the #47 VCU Rams 6-1 on Super Bowl Sunday morning.  The Eagles have dropped three straight matches against nationally ranked opponents.  

VCU started off early winning the #3 seed doubles matches with Olga Barscheuskaya and  Salome Kvitashvili beating sophmore Ekin Gunaysu (Ankara, Turkey) and freshman Caitlin Cridland (Perth, Australia) 8-2.  VCU then won the #2 seed doubles 8-3 behind Daria Yakauleva and Olga Terteac defeating freshman Alice Garcia (Brasilia, Brazil) and senior Giovanna Portioli (Curitiba, Brazil).  VCU's Josefin Hjertquist and Yukako Noi were winning over senior Yasmine Alkema (Algiers, Algeria) and junior Andressa Garcia (Sao Paulo, Brazil) 8-6 when their match was stopped.  

In singles play, the Lady Eagles' #95th ranked Alkema defeated VCU's #46th ranked Kvitashvili 6-2, 3-6, 6-4.  Then 2 seed Andressa Garcia fell to Terteac  5-7, 6-7.  3 seed Alice Garcia fell to Noi  1-6, 5-7 and 4 seed Piortioli lost to Hjertquist 4-6, 1-6; giving Piortioli her first singles loss of the season.  Finishing out the singles round was 5 seed Cridland losing to Barscheuskaya 4-6, 6-3, 4-6 and 6 seed Gunaysu falling to Alesha 6-7, 6-2, 6-10.  

The Lady Eagles are back in action Saturday against ACC foe Wake Forest at 2:00 pm.