Thursday,
March 6, 2008
NO.
25 FRANCIS MARION MEN BEAT NO. 35 TUSCULUM 7-2
FLORENCE, S.C. --- The No. 25 Francis Marion men’s tennis team
handed No. 35 Tusculum its first loss of the season as the Patriots prevailed
7-2. FMU improves to 9-1, while the
Pioneers drop to 5-1 on the season.
FMU won the top two doubles
matches as the No. 1 pairing of Franklyn
Emmanuel and Oshada Wijemanne
(ranked No. 11 in NCAA II), defeated TC’s Sergio Espinosa and Carlos Garcia 8-1. Tusculum’s Nicolas Bigler and Hunter Beal won at the No. 3 flight, 8-4 over Karl Rogers and James Machlachlan.
Emmanuel, who is also ranked the
No. 20 singles player in the country, posted a 6-3, 6-2 win against Bigler at No. 1 singles.
Dilshod Sharifi
knocked off Garcia 6-1, 6-3 at No. 3 singles, halting Garcia’s school-record
22-game winning streak.
TC’s Henrique Rodrigues recorded a singles
victory at the No. 4 flight over Bastian
Czwalinna.
The Pioneers return to action
Saturday morning at 10:30 a.m. when TC takes on West Virginia Wesleyan in
Hilton Head Island, S.C.
- TC –
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No. 25 Francis Marion 7, No. 35
Tusculum 2 |
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Singles |
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1
- #20 Franklin Emmanuel (FMU) def. Nicolas Bigler |
6-3,
6-2 |
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2
– Oshada Wijemanne (FMU) def. Sergio
Espinosa |
7-6
(7-1), 6-4 |
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3
– Dilshod Sharifi (FMU) def. Carlos
Garcia |
6-1,
6-3 |
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4
– Henrique Rodrigues (TC) def. Bastian Czwalinna |
3-2
(won by default) |
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5
– Karl Rogers (FMU) def. Leo Guaycurus |
6-1,
6-4 |
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6
– Dananjaya Mayadunne (FMU) def.
Hunter Beal |
6-1,
6-0 |
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Doubles |
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1
- #11 Emmanuel/Wijemanne (FMU) def. Espinosa/Garcia |
8-1 |
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2
– Sharifi/Mayadunne (FMU) def. Rodrigues/Guaycurus |
8-4 |
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3
– Bigler/Beal (TC) def. Rogers/James Machlachlan |
8-4 |