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The freshman delivered the clinching fourth point as the Lady Wildcats (22-6) won their first title since 2001 and snapped the ten-year dominance of the Bulldogs.
Named the tournament’s outstanding player, Vidal went all three of her singles matches – also clinching Friday’s semifinal over Florida A&M – and combining with 2015 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Rookie Of The Year Maria Garoz-Moreno on a pair of doubles wins.
Vidal rallied from a 5-2 deficit in the first set tiebreaker as she downed Smarananda Petreanu 7-6 (5) 6-3 at No. 6 singles.
Her fellow freshmen – Adel Musina and Garoz-Moreno – registered the second and third Lady Wildcat points as the B-CU upperclassmen were fending off strong challenges.
Mina Matsuba, the two-time MEAC Player Of The Year, dropped the second set of a long-awaited No. 1 match with SCSU’s Intissar Rassif, but had regained control of the third set to take a 5-2, but the window of Matsuba clinching the made closed when Rassif won two straight games to make it 5-4.
Seniors Maria Sablina and Chinatsu Kajiwara were both leading their matches when play was halted.
After a lengthy rain delay, B-CU clinched the doubles point when Matsuba/Salina got the one game they needed for an 8-2 victory. Garoz-Mareno/Vidal had won their No. 3 doubles match 8-0 earlier in the day.
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