Tennis squads battle hard, take tough losses

The GCSU tennis teams dealt with some tough defeats over the past week against high-ranked competition after a pair of shutout victories this past Friday.

Most recently, the women’s team took a pair of losses Tuesday and Wednesday to drop three straight overall. Tuesday’s loss came to Peach Belt Conference rival Clayton State, 6-3, and Wednesday’s match resulted in a 7-2 defeat against Brenau.

Against Clayton, GCSU earned wins at first, third and sixth singles from senior Diane Danna, junior Bertille Lion and sophomore Adriana Acuna, respectively.

Then on Wednesday against Brenau, the Bobcats again lost all three doubles matches, and this time could only get wins from Danna and Lion at first and third singles.

Previously this past week, the women’s team experienced each side of shutouts, winning Friday against Georgia Southwestern 9-0, and dropping all nine matches the following day against No. 5 Columbus State.

Against Southwestern, Danna and Lion teamed for the win at first doubles, and each took their singles matches at first and third spots, respectively, while freshmen Kayla Barksdale and Michelle Lingner paired at second doubles and won their singles matches at the second and fourth spots, respectively. Freshman Linda Mosa and Acuna won their match at third doubles, and also took their singles matches at the fifth and sixth spots, respectively.

The men’s squad only played the two weekend matches along with the women, and also earned a split. Their victory also came by shutout, 9-0, against Southwestern. Their loss, however, was by the slimmest of margins as they fell 5-4 to No. 8 Columbus State.

On Friday against Southwestern, the Bobcats got wins from their first doubles pair of sophomore Jerome Leborgne and freshman Johan Wadstein, as well as from seniors Max Beliankou and Giovane Nucci at the second spot and sophomore Leo Bernardes and freshman Tyler Franks at third doubles.

In singles, GCSU did not lose a set, as they swept first through sixth with Leborgne, Beliankou, Nucci, Bernardes, freshman Wictor Andersson and sophomore Bobby Angelucci all sweeping their matches, respectively.

On Saturday against Columbus, the Bobcats’ lone doubles win came from Beliankou and Nucci, 9-7 at the second spot. Singles wins from the first three spots got them to within 5-4, as Leborgne, Wadstein and Beliankou took their matches, respectively.

Both teams traveled to Anderson (S.C.) yesterday for matches, with results unavailable due to press time constraints. The women are in action today at UNC Pembroke at 2 p.m., and both teams play at home on Sunday against SCAD at noon.

Posted by Preston Sellers on Apr 9 2010. Filed under Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry