JACKSONVILLE – The Jacksonville State men's tennis team dropped a 4-3 decision to non-conference foe Troy on Tuesday at the JSU Tennis Courts.
 
The loss snapped a three-game winning streak for the Gamecocks (10-5, 3-0 OVC) since the beginning of Ohio Valley Conference play. It was the second non-conference match of the season JSU dropped by just one point.
 
After dropping the first set, Sergio Lizarraga and Aljaz Kaplja got the Gamecocks back on track with a 6-4 win at No. 1 doubles to for a third set for the point. Despite a tough battle against Troy's (16-4, 1-3 Sun Belt) Manuel Bernard and Jiaqi Duan at No. 2, Guillermo Agost and Jordi Blancher fell 7-6.
 
Up 1-0, the Trojans took the first two singles sets to extend their lead to 3-0. Blanchar earned his team-leading 10th win of the season with a two-set win to give JSU its first point of the afternoon, but a win at No. 2 for Troy's Oskar Michalek over Joaquin Vallejo secured the victory for the visitors after just four singles matchups.
 
Despite having lost, Lizarraga continued to balled and earned the win at No. 5 in two sets over Christopher Tasker, and Agost picked up his 10th win of the season with a three-set win at No. 1 to tie Blanchar for the Gamecocks' lead in singles wins.
 
JSU continues non-conference play next Tuesday with an April 9 home meeting against Florida A&M before returning to conference action Saturday, April 13 against Tennessee Tech in Jacksonville.
 
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