DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The Wildcats will make their 2025 Daytona debut as they host a pair of games against College of Charleston and St. John's Saturday March 1 and Sunday March 2 at Derbyshire Park. 

First serve each day is set for 11 a.m.



Stetson captured all positions Friday afternoon in order to defeat Bethune-Cookman 7-0 in nonconference women's tennis play at Mandy Stoll Tennis Center on the Stetson University campus in nearby DeLand, Florida. For Bethune-Cookman, it was the second loss of the season away to the Hatters of Stetson.

Stetson took all three doubles positions, including a hard-fought 6-3 decision on court one, as the Hatters team of Katsiaryna Tuliakova and Anastasija Adeikyte took down Bethune-Cookman's pair of Jalayah Shaw and Allexii Bassette, 6-3. The Hatters grabbed a 6-0 win at the No. 2 doubles spot in order to earn the 1-0 lead heading into singles play.
 
In the singles competition, Bethune-Cookman (1-3) used sophomore Jalayah Shaw at the No. 1 position. The Plant City, Florida native took Stetson's Katsiaryna Tuliakova to a third set in the most exciting match of the day. Shaw dropped the opener 2-6, before evening the match with a 6-4 win in the second set. Tuliakova eventually won the match with a 10-4 super set score line in the third.

"What a great performance from [Jalayah] Shaw at the No. 1 singles spot," said Wollett afterwards. "She really showed a lot of heart and fight in that match splitting sets. It's a shame that she came up a bit short in the tiebreaker as I thought it was one of her collegiate matches."
 
Freshman Zahara El-Zein continued to impress B-CU Head Coach Chris Wollett in the No. 2 position before falling to the Hatters' Cheri Darley on a 6-1, 6-1 line. Stetson's Alanna DiFrancesco defeated B-CU's Allexii Bassette in the No. 3 spot with scores of 6-0, 6-1.
 
Stetson took No. 4 and No. 5 singles on the strength of 6-0, 6-0 straight set wins, respectively.



College of Charleston is 2-3 on the season with wins over Mercer (4-3), and Presbyterian (6-1). 

Most recently, the Cougars fell to Coastal Carolina on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 5-2. 

College of Charleston finished the 2024 season 17-5 under Head Coach Angelo Anastopoulo, who is in the midst of his 34th year at the helm of the program 

St. John's is 6-3 on the year. The Red Storm dropped a 4-0 contest to Rutgers on Friday, Feb. 7 after previously winning four straight. 

The Johnnies are coming off a successful spring season in 2024, reaching the BIG EAST Semifinals for the ninth consecutive tournament. They enter this season with four newcomers to four returners from last years' squad.