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SAVANNAH, Ga. – Getting a trio of singles wins, No. 14 Georgia College & State University men’s tennis (17-6) advanced to the NCAA DII Men's Tennis Mid-Atlantic Regional Final with a 5-3 victory over rival No. 19 Columbus State University (13-12) Thursday afternoon (May 8).
The Bobcats will face host No. 1 Armstrong Atlantic State University at 2 p.m. Friday in the championship match. The winner earns a berth to the NCAA DII Round of 16 in Houston May 14-17.
Georgia College earned a quick doubles point with Erick Siqueira (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Francis Yoshimoto's (Sao Paulo, Brazil) 8-5 win at No. 1 doubles over Nemanja Djuric and Luis Gonzales. Columbus State evened things back up with an 8-6 win at No. 3 doubles by Filip Cojbasic and Frank Suarez. The Bobcats earned the second doubles point as Matthew Belenchia (Lilburn, Ga.) and Joao Casagrande (Sao Paulo, Brazil) broke serve at 8-7 to defeat Guillermo
Echevarria and Paul van Rensburg, 9-7.
The Bobcats clinched the match with three singles wins as within minutes, Casagrande defeated Djuric, 7-6, 6-2, at No. 5 singles and Siqueira knocked off Suarez, 6-2, 6-4, at No. 1 singles. Giovane Nucci (Santa Catarina, Brazil) had defeated van Rensburg earlier, 6-4, 6-3, at No. 4 singles for GCSU. The Cougars (13-12) picked up two singles wins as Gonzalez defeated Max Beliankou (Minsk, Belarus), 6-3, 6-4, at No. 3 singles and Hernando Ortiz defeated Belenchia, 6-4, 6-1, at No. 6 singles.
The region final is a rematch of the Peach Belt Conference tournament championship match, in which the Pirates defeated the Bobcats, 5-0.
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