Men's Box Score
Women's Box Score
AIKEN, S.C. – The USC Aiken men's and women's
tennis teams were unable to knock off nationally-ranked Francis
Marion on Saturday at the USC Aiken Tennis Complex.
In a battle of top 20 teams, 15th-ranked Francis
Marion was narrowly able to escape the 17th-ranked
Pacers in a 5-4 victory. The 13th-ranked Francis Marion
women were able to best the Pacer women, 7-2.
The Pacer men are now 8-10 on the season. The loss to Peach Belt
Conference rival Francis Marion on Saturday drops the Pacers to 2-7
in the PBC. The USC Aiken women fell to 9-10 on the season in their
loss to Francis Marion on Saturday. The Pacer women are presently
4-8 in the PBC.
The 15th-ranked Francis Marion men are now 9-4 (5-3
PBC), while the 13th-ranked Francis Marion women move to
12-3 (8-2 PBC) with the victory over the Pacers on Saturday.
The 17th-ranked Pacer men commandeered two of the
three doubles matches to hold a 2-1 lead after doubles, but Francis
Marion countered by claiming four of the six singles matches to
collect the narrow 5-4 victory.
USC Aiken's No. 1 doubles duo of Gregory Andrade (Sao
Paulo, Brazil/Sergio D'Amorim) and Juan Xavier Ponce (Miami, Fla.
/Drury University) continued their winning ways on Saturday by
besting Francis Marion's No. 1 doubles team of Oshada
Wijemanne and Dirk Moore by the score of 8-5. The Pacer tandem has
now won 11 straight. They are 15-3 on the 2010 season.
USC Aiken dropped the match at No. 2 doubles, but USC
Aiken's No. 3 doubles tandem of Ben Klass (Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia/Deutsche Schule Kuala Lumpur) and Juan Guglielmeti (Mar
del Plata, Argentina/Instituto Albert Einstein) defeated Francis
Marion's Alex Caspari and Jack Bishop by an 8-6 tally.
Nicolas Markiewicz (Liege, Belgium/College Saint Louis Liege)
claimed one of two USC Aiken's two singles points by easly
besting Francis Marion's Dirk Blair 6-1, 6-1 at No. 3
singles.
Guglielmeti secured USC Aiken's final point of the day by
downing Bishop 6-2, 2-6, 11-9 at No. 6 singles. The win was
Guglielmeti's second straight. It moved him to 10-6 on the
season. He is the second Pacer to acquire double-digit wins in
2010, joining Ponce, who is currently 11-6.
Ida Sandberg (Uppsala, Sweden/Celsiusskolan) and Bridgette Gale
(St. Augustine, Fla./St. Augustine) secured the Pacer women's
lone point in doubles by downing Francis Marion's No. 3
doubles duo of Kerry Hall and Karine Augur, 8-3. Gale defeated
Augur 6-1, 6-0 at No. 6 singles for the Pacers lone singles point.
The USC Aiken men will next travel to Gaffney, S.C. to take on
the Limestone Saints on Wednesday, April 7. The match is scheduled
to get underway at 4 p.m.
The USC Aiken men and women will then conclude the week by
traveling to Charlotte, N.C. to play a neutral site match against
Lees-McRae at 1 p.m. on Sunday, April 11.
