Men's Final Stats
Women's Final Stats
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. - Both Jacksonville State tennis teams dropped Ohio Valley Conference matches to Austin Peay on Saturday on the APSU campus. APSU claimed the men's match, 5-2, while the JSU women fell 4-3.
The JSU men fell to 4-3 in OVC matches, while the Gamecock women stand at 3-5. Both teams have one conference match left on the slate as they travel to Tennessee State on April 15. OVC Tournament implications will be riding on the final regular season match.
In the men's match, things looked to favor Jax State after it won the doubles point. The Gamecock duo of
Igor Santos and
Jordan Cowling moved to 5-1 on the season in OVC play with an 8-4 win over APSU's Jasmin Ademovic and John Storie. The win was the tandem's fifth in a row against OVC foes.
Felipe Watanabe and
Felipe Wenzel turned back Iago Seffrin and Aleksas Tverijonas, 8-4.
Watanabe posted JSU's lone point in singles after disposing of Storie - 6-4, 6-3 at No. 5. Head coach
Steve Bailey made a line up change at the top as he moved Santos into the No. 1 slot and moved
Axel Sundberg down to No. 2. Santos suffered a 7-5, 6-2 setback to Sean Bailey, while Sundberg battled Ademovic to a three-set affair before falling in the final set. Cowling dropped his first OVC singles match of the season in three sets. He split the first two sets before Tverijonas won 7-5 in the third for the win.
In the women's match, APSU jumped on the scoreboard with the doubles point. JSU's top team of
Raisa Guasti and
Raphaela Lima tuned in an 8-2 victory over Vanja Tomic and Alison Carre. Guasti and Lima moved to 5-3 on the season in OVC matches.
Lima carried the momentum into her singles match with Ornella Di Salvo as she tallied a 6-2, 6-3 win at No. 2. JSU gained points at No. 5 and 6 singles after
Danielle Kerindi and Aleksandra Cmilijic turned in wins. Kerindi was a 6-2, 7-5 winner over Vanessa Tavarez. Cmilijic rebounded from a 6-4 loss in the opening set to win the next two sets - 7-6, 10-4.
JSU wraps up the home schedule on Wednesday, April 11 as it takes on Mercer in Gadsden, Ala. Match time is set for 1:30 p.m.
