Southern Miss
Troy
Men's Tennis Edges Troy, 4-1
3/4/2012 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
March 4, 2012
HATTIESBURG, Miss. - Even though it took an extra day, the Southern Miss men's tennis team was able to pull out a 4-1 win over Troy Sunday morning at the USM Tennis Courts.
The match began on Friday, but heavy rains forced the teams to suspend action until Sunday. In between, both teams were in action as Southern Miss travel to Tulane and Troy started its match with Lamar on Saturday. Troy and Lamar could not finish because of darkness and had to finish their match on Sunday morning as well.
The Golden Eagles took the early lead, 1-0 after posting wins at No. 3 and No. 2 doubles. Andrew Goodwin and Michael Elortegui teamed together for an 8-2 win over Patrick Eichler and Tadju Davies. Paulo Alvarado and Juan Escobar downed Anas Rouchdi and Andres Sanchez, 8-4, to clinch the point. At No. 1 doubles, Matt Frost and Inaki Belloso were all knotted up 6-6 with Sami Ghorbel and Mansingh Athare when the match was suspended.
In singles, Goodwin gave the Eagles a 2-1 lead after posting a 6-0, 6-1 win over Sanchez at the No. 6 spot. Troy made the score 2-1 when Athare out-dueled Belloso, 7-6 (6), 7-5 on court three. The remaining matches were still in progress when heavy rains forced the match to be suspended.
On Sunday morning, the singles picked up where they left off on Friday. Jovan Zeljkovic had to battled back in the third set to claim a 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 over Davies at No. 5. Frost then clinched the match for the Golden Eagles with a 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 win over Rouchdi at No. 1.
On court two, Alvarado and Ghorbel split sets and were on serve in the third. Escobar and Eichler split two tie-breaker sets and Escobar was up, 3-0, when the match was called.
