PENSACOLA, Fla. – The Valdosta State men's and women's tennis teams blanked Christian Brothers Saturday morning as bot teams won 7-0 in Pensacola, Fla.
The No. 3-ranked Blazer men's team improved to 12-3 overall and 5-1 in Gulf South Conference play as it got things started winning the doubles point, but the Buccaneers won the first match at No. 3 with Benjamin Hannot and Pedro Gomez downing junior
Takeshi Taco and freshman
Jerome Iaconi, 6-2. From there, Blazer top duo of No. 35-ranked seniors
Luca Mack and
Christian Wedel dispatched Jojo Sandoz and Miguel Perez Habib, 6-1. No. 47-ranked duo of junior
Boruch Skierkier and sophomore
Jan Skerbatis won 6-4 over Juan Ycaza and Ignacio Mora, 6-4 to clinch the point.
The Blazers won all six singles matches in straight-sets as Mack, ranked 24
th nationally won 6-1, 6-0 at the top spot over Ycaza, while Taco, ranked No. 5 nationally won 6-1, 6-2 at No. 2 over Mora and No. 21-ranked Skierkier won 6-0, 6-4 at No. 3 singles over Hannot. Iaconi win 6-3, 6-0 at No. 4 over Perez Habib, while Skerbatis won 6-2, 7-5 at No. 5 and junior Zaveam Van Wijk won 7-5, 6-1 at No. 6.
On the women's side, the No. 35-ranked Blazers won all three matches in singles by walk overs for an early 1-0 lead and CBU did not field a doubles lineup. In singles, freshman
Natalie Rainke won by retirement over Sofia Zemtsova after a 6-3 win in the first set, while freshman
Denisa Hanakova won 6-2, 7-5 over Viktoriia Grigoreva at No. 2 and freshman
Aneta Poborilova won 6-0, 6-2 at No. 3 over Chelsea Dzenga. Sophomore
Evelyn Altmaier won 6-4, 6-1 at No. 4 over Raheen Taranum. CBU also didn't field players at both the Nos. 5 and 6 positions.
The VSU women's team improved to 6-7 overall and 5-1 in GSC play. Both the men's and women's teams will turn their attention to a pair of ranked teams on Sunday versus Mississippi College at 11 a.m. ET. The MC men's team is 17
th nationally while the women's team is 27
th.
Check back with vstateblazers.com for links to live results on both team's schedule pages.
