Bears Rout The Citadel For Fourth-Straight Win

Saturday, March 29

Charleston, S.C.

3 p.m.

Mercer University

The Citadel

Bears Rout The Citadel For Fourth-Straight Win

3/29/2025 8:06:00 PM | Men's Tennis

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By: Todd Anderson, anderson_t02@mercer.edu

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Junior tandem Hod'Abalo Isak Padio and Amen Prince Gandonou toughed out a 7-5 win in the featured doubles match to clinch the early point for Mercer and the Bears breezed to five straight-sets singles victories to fuel a 6-1 rout of The Citadel on Saturday afternoon at the Earle Tennis Center.

The win helped the Bears (8-6, 3-0 SoCon) tack up their first 3-0 start to conference action since the 2018 campaign, while also giving the Orange & Black its fourth-straight overall victory – its longest winning skein since early in the 2023 campaign. It was the seventh-straight loss for The Citadel (4-23, 0-6) who remained winless in Southern Conference action.

Senior Marceau Fouilhoux teamed up with junior Nemanja Stefanovic to post a 6-2 victory at No. 2 doubles, but The Citadel evened things up minutes later when Reece Beckendorf and Anthony Osipov came out on the better end of a 7-3 tiebreaker on Court No. 2.

Gandonou and Padio delivered the goods, however, with a 7-5 win over Noah Van Dyke and Tucker Hendrix on Court No. 1.

The Bears all but coasted through singles competition, yielding just four games or less in four of their five victories, while Gandonou won 6-2 and 6-4 at No. 3 singles.

Mercer will be back in action again on Wednesday when they travel to Greenville, S.C., to take on SoCon nemesis Furman (6-11, 2-1) at the Mickel Tennis Center. Start time has been scheduled for 1 p.m.