BOONEVILLE, Miss. –  Northeast Mississippi Community College's lone Lady Tiger sophomore tennis player made the most of her final Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges (MACJC) State Tournament.

Alcorn Central's Elizabeth Mitchell scored her first three-set win of the season to advance to the second round of the state tournament being held at Rob Leake City Park in Tupelo.

Mitchell knocked off Hind's Octavia Pendleton 0-6, 6-4, 6-3 to advance to the second round of the three-day event.

With the win, Mitchell evened her season record to 5-5 including a pair of wins against Pendleton.

Mitchell and Pendleton faced off on March 4 in New Albany as the Lady Tigers captured their first win of the year 5-4 versus the Lady Eagles.

Pendleton and Mitchell's three-set match was one of two first round matches to go to a third set in the opening round of the tournament as the other 25 women's singles matches that were played on the opening day ended in two sets.

Play was suspended midway through the opening round due to inclement weather and was scheduled to be picked up on Friday, April 19.

In the top-ranked women's singles match, Southaven's Madison Rust gave Copiah-Lincoln's Melody Smith a run before falling 6-3, 7-5 while Hinds' Latoya Whitley knocked off Maegan Trexler (New Albany) in the second-ranked women's singles matches.

Belmont's Allison Wiltshire was able to score six games off of Hinds' Annissa Johnson but dropped a 6-2, 6-4 decision to the Lady Eagle.

Houston's Nikki Baird, who entered the state tournament with a 6-4 individual record, chipped away three sets from Copiah-Lincoln's Meredith Allen before dropping a 6-0, 6-3 decision in the sixth-ranked women's singles event.

In a singles' match not played against a Hinds or Copiah-Lincoln foe, Valerie Mitchell fell 6-0, 6-0 to Jones County's Elizabeth Wright.

On the women's doubles side, Rust and Trexler gave the Holmes duo of Rebecca Shileds and Elizabeth Petro a run in the top-ranked women's doubles match.

Rust and Trexler captured the opening set 7-5 before dropping identical 6-4, 6-4 sets to the Lady Bulldog duo.

In the second-ranked women's doubles match East Central's Alana Turner and Amber Pierce captured a 6-2, 6-1 decision against Mitchell and Wiltshire.