Bears Extend Winning Streak to Seven with Sweeps Over Pair of Peach State Opponents

Saturday, February 17

Macon, Ga.

11 a.m.

Mercer University

Georgia Southwestern State

Bears Extend Winning Streak to Seven with Sweeps Over Pair of Peach State Opponents

2/17/2018 9:23:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: Will Tharp

MACON, Ga. – The Mercer men's tennis team stretched to a seven game win-streak with 7-0 sweeps over Georgia Southwestern State and Berry College Saturday at the LeRoy Peddy Tennis Center. The team excelled across the board over the day, not dropping a single set.

The Bears began the afternoon in style, sweeping the doubles competition over Georgia Southwestern State. After clinching the doubles point, No. 2 seeded Stathis Tsiranidis and Carver Arant had a thrilling 7-5 victory over Beau Milwood and Luke Eafano, breaking their opponents in the 12^th game of the set. In singles play, No. 4 seeded Ruben Vanoppen topped Eafano in near perfect fashion, 6-1, 6-0. Mercer continued to dominate across the board, sweeping the Storm, 7-0.

Once again the Bears gained early momentum sweeping the doubles competition over Berry College. Jordan Mark and John Wharton earned their first doubles appearance at the No. 3 position and stepped up to the occasion, dominating their opponents, 6-0. Mercer continued to show their stuff, taking every match in the singles competition in straight sets. No. 2 seeded Fernando Guardia downed Ryan Miner, only dropping one game, 6-0, 6-1. Mercer prevailed 7-0 over the Vikings.

The Bears will hit the road for one of their toughest tests of the season, a match against ACC powerhouse, Virginia, on Friday, Feb. 23.

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