CHARLESTON, S.C. - The Charleston Southern tennis team rallied for a fifth consecutive victory and sent seniors Olga Makhova and Marija Dzakovic out with a win in their final home match as the Bucs clipped Coastal Carolina, 4-3, at Buccaneer Tennis Center on Wednesday afternoon.

CSU (14-3, 7-1) dropped all three doubles matches, but rebounded to take four of the six singles matches and get the better of their Palmetto State rival. Coastal (13-5, 6-2) entered in a tie for second-place with CSU, and the Bucs' triumph assured them of at least a second place standing in next week's conference tournament. A Winthrop loss to Presbyterian on Friday would give CSU a share of the Big South regular season title.

Makhova set the tone at number one singles, cruising past Miki Bunea 6-1, 6-1, to improve her singles mark to 11-4 for the campaign. The Chanticleers claimed victories at number two and four singles, but CSU freshman Yvonne Hubler kept the singles bout tied at 2 apiece with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Coastal's Katie Fosnacht out of the number three set.

Hubler's win gave Alexandra Walters and Alia Nour an opportunity to deliver a win out of the number five and six spots, and the sophomores came through for Mike Baker's team win once again. Walters persevered through a tightly contested matchup with Coastal's Kourtney Kowal, winning a pair of tiebreakers to up her team-best record to 15-1 this season. Nour then continued her roll at number six singles, earning her 12th straight win with a 6-4, 6-2 defeat of Maria Hesketh.

Next up for the Bucs is a trip to Cullowhee, N.C. for an out-of-conference date with Western Carolina on Friday at 2 p.m. CSU will follow that up with a Saturday match at Shaw to cap the regular season, before embarking on the Big South Tournament April 19-21 in Asheville, N.C.

Doubles Results
1. Bunea/Mortlock (CCU) def. Walters/Hubler (CSU), 8-0
2. Kristofersson/Fosnacht (CCU) def. Makhova/Dzakovic (CSU), 8-7 (7-5)
3. Kowal/Hesketh (CCU) def. Sidorenko/Nour (CSU), 8-6

Singles Results
1. Makhova (CSU) def. Bunea (CCU), 6-1, 6-1
2. Mortlock (CCU) def. Sidorenko (CSU), 7-6, 6-4
3. Hubler (CSU) def. Fosnacht (CCU), 6-1, 6-4
4. Kristofersson (CCU) def. Dzakovic (CSU), 5-7, 6-4, 6-0
5. Walters (CSU) def. Kowal (CCU), 7-6 (9-7), 7-6 (7-4)
6. Nour (CSU) def. Hesketh (CCU), 6-4, 6-2