Men's Box Score | Women's Box Sore

HATTIESBURG, Miss. – The Jacksonville State men's tennis team finished the opening weekend of the season with its first win of the season on Sunday over Alcorn State.

The Gamecocks blanked the Braves of ASU, 4-0, on the campus of Southern Mississippi.  The Jax State women dropped a 7-0 decision to the University of New Orleans.

In the men's match, JSU got off to a great start with the doubles point.  The No. 2 duo of Jaryd Reese and Dylan Gee turned in their second win of the year after ousting ASU's team of Nischay Rawal and Vasudu Vijayaraman, 7-6 (8).  Felipe Wenzel and Felipe Diaz downed Garry Amor and Kilian Salgado of ASU, 7-5.

JSU carried the momentum in to singles action as it picked up three quick points to clinch the match and were leading in six of the seven matches before the other matches were halted due to JSU clinching the overall match.  Gee notched his first singles win with a quick work of Rawal, 6-1, 6-1 at No. 3.  Wenzel and Diaz, a pair of seniors on the squad, carded wins to secure the match.  Wenzel downed Salgado, 6-4, 6-0 at No. 5, while Diaz won in straight sets over Amor, 7-5, 6-2 at No. 6.

On the women's side, it was a tough day for the Red and White versus UNO, but two of the singles matches went down to the wire in a third set.  After UNO claimed the doubles point by winning at No. 2 and 3, JSU looked to regroup in singles.

In singles, Jax State freshman Genevie Ulanday won the first set, 6-3, over UNO's Anja Luethi, but Luethi bounced back to win the next two sets, 6-1, 10-5.  Another JSU newcomer saw herself in a three-set battle at No. 5.  Diana Mirceta fell to Yasmine Rashad, 6-1 in the opening set, but recovered to claim the second set, 6-1, to force a third and deciding set.  Rashad posted a 6-0 win in the third set to take the match.

Both squads return to action next week against the Jaguars of South Alabama.  The JSU men will test USA on Thursday, Jan. 29.  The women's tilt with USA is set for Friday, Jan. 30.