Box Score MACON, Ga.- Southeastern men's tennis completed an upset victory over No. 6 ranked Middle Georgia State University today by a score of 5-2 to move to 4-0 on the season.
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The No. 9 ranked Fire took victories at line one and two doubles by scores of 6-2 with
Christian Garay and
Diego Menendez taking the first match and
Federico Barbon and
Victor Olivera securing the doubles point soon after.
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The Knights tied the match at one after Olivera fell by scores of 6-3 and 6-2 and line two.
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Garay again helped his team get on the board, this time with a win at singles line one with 6-0 and 6-3 scores to give the Fire the 2-1 edge.
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At line three, Menendez dropped set one 6-3 and fought back to take set two 6-3 to force a third. In the tiebreaker set, Menendez was the first to seven and took the match victory with a 7-6 victory after taking the tiebreaker 7-2.
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Barbon came up just short in the line four doubles match, dropping set one 7-6 (7-4 tiebreaker) and set two 6-4 to move the match to 3-2 in favor of the Fire.
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Guido Luna and
Enrique Martinez then went on to take both of their singles matches to earn the Fire's victory, Luna with scores of 6-4 and 6-2 while Martinez took set one 6-3, dropped set two 6-2, and earned the match victory after a marathon 15-13 set three.
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Southeastern will next take on receiving votes Warner University at the Beerman Family Tennis Complex in Lakeland at 1 p.m. on March 1
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