Men's Box Score
Women's Box Score

JACKSONVILLE – The Jacksonville State men's tennis opened Ohio Valley Conference play by knocking off Eastern Kentucky, one of the preseason favorites on Sunday afternoon at the JSU Tennis Courts.

The Gamecocks posted a 5-2 win over the Colonels, while the JSU women finished the first weekend of conference play at 1-1 with a 6-1 setback to EKU.  JSU, who moved to 5-5 overall on the season, won its second-straight OVC opener and the fourth out of the last seven OVC lid lifters.  On the women's side, Jax State fell to 4-7 overall.

JSU got off to a great start by claiming the doubles point, which came down to a tiebreaker at No. 2 doubles.  After both teams claimed wins at the other two spots, the point was decided between JSU's team of Pedro Wagner and Felipe Diaz and the EKU duo of Sebastian Mueller and Diego Asis.  Wagner and Diaz out-lasted the Colonels' tandem, 11-9 to claim the match, 8-7.

Wagner maintained his momentum from doubles in to his singles match at No. 1 with EKU's Alex Alvaro.  He claimed the opening set, 6-4, before Alvaro matched him with a 6-1 second-set win to force a third-and-deciding set.  Wagner turned back Alvaro, 6-3 for the point.

At No. 2, Jaryd Reese and EKU's Daridge Saidi played a tight first set with Reese posting a 7-6 (11-9) win before taking the second set 6-3.  Dylan Gee and Jefferson Wendler-Filho rounded out the team score with straight-set wins at No. 3 and No. 4.

In the women's match, JSU senior Raisa Guasti turned in one of her finer matches of her Gamecock career as she ousted the reigning OVC Player of the Year, EKU's Amandine Faouzi.  Guasti opened the match with a 6-4 win.  Faouzi recovered with a 6-2 second-set win, but could not withstand Guasti bounced back to blank Faouzi, 6-0 for Jax State's lone point.

Both JSU squads will step out of conference play on Wednesday, hosting NCAA Division II foe, Shorter.  Match time is set for 1:30 p.m. at the JSU Tennis Courts.