Box Score DELAND, Fla. – The 66th-ranked Stetson University men's tennis team earned a hard fought doubles point as
Lucas Olivier and
Riccardo Baldi clinched the point winning 7-6. Stetson (8-2) earned four victories in singles play to defeat Georgia Southern (4-7) 5-2. The victory extends the Hatters win streak to seven matches.
Doubles
#1 Del Castillo, Pol / Paliouras, Dimitris [GEORGIA SOUTHERN] def.
Rodriguez Garceran, Juan Jose /
Saura, Marc [STETSON] 6-2
#2
Olivier, Lucas /
Baldi, Riccardo [STETSON] def. Blair, Judson / Williams, Aaron James [GEORGIA SOUTHERN] 7-6
#3
Blanco, Eder /
Haris Eminefendic, Ervin [STETSON] def. Calac, Laurent Julia / Mitchell, Matthew [GEORGIA SOUTHERN] 6-2
Order of Finish: 1, 3, 2
Singles
#1 Paliouras, Dimitris [GEORGIA SOUTHERN] def. Olivier, Lucas [STETSON] 6-3, 4-5 Medical Withdraw
#2 del Castillo, Pol [GEORGIA SOUTHERN] def.
Eminefendic, Ervin Haris [STETSON] 6-4, 1-6, 6-1
#3
Blanco, Eder [STETSON] def. Blair, Judson [GEORGIA SOUTHERN] 6-3, 7-6
#4
Gennes, Tim [STETSON] def. Williams, Aaron James [GEORGIA SOUTHERN] 6-2, 6-1
#5
Saura, Marc [STETSON] def. Calac, Laurent Julia [GEORGIA SOUTHERN] 6-2, 6-4
#6
Ozzor, Sami [STETSON] def. Mitchell, Matthew [GEORGIA SOUTHERN] 6-2, 6-3
Order of Finish: 4, 6, 5, 3, 2, 1
WORDS FROM COACH
"I thought that was a hell of a battle, that's a team we've always had a big rivalry with, we respect them a lot and I think they do the same to us and it's always a great match, we look forward to playing them every year," said Head Coach Christophe Noblet. "I think the doubles was big, I really like how we brought a ton of energy at the beginning and got us over the hump and got us points there but I also love the way everybody kept fighting. Even though we had four points we wanted more and it was a really good team effort today from the warmup to the doubles to the singles to my assistant Fabi to the crowd that came out and really made it fun, I thought that was what college tennis was all about."
NEXT UP
The Hatters will stay at home to face Belmont on Thursday March 7 at 2:00PM at the Mandy Stoll Tennis Center.
