#14 FMU Men netters fall at #16 Lander 6-3

GREENWOOD, SC - The No. 16-ranked Lander men's tennis team upset No. 14 Francis Marion 6-3 Friday afternoon in the Peach Belt Conference opener for both teams at The Joe Cabri Courts.

Lander improves to 5-1 overall and 1-0 in the PBC, while Francis Marion moves to 2-1, 0-1.

In No. 1 singles, 25th-ranked Paul-Henri Arrigoni of Lander, upset ninth-ranked Oshada Wijemanne, 7-5, 3-6, 6-1, giving Lander its fifth point and the match. In No. 2 singles, Francis Marion's 17th-ranked Dilshod Sharifi def. Henrik Willers, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. In other singles matches, No. 3 Levan Clark (LU) def. Karl Rogers (FMU), 6-1, 6-3; No. 4 Christopher Mattsson (LU) def. Dirk Bair (FMU), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4; No. 5 Alex Caspari (FMU) def. Pierre Frances (LU), 6-2, 6-1; and No. 6 Juan Manrique (LU) def. Jack Bishop (FMU), 6-2, 6-4.

In doubles, FMU's No. 2-ranked team of Sharifi/Wijemanne defeated Lander's Clark/Frances, 8-3. In other doubles matches, No. 2 Mattsson/Willers (LU) def. Bair/Bishop (FMU), 8-1; and No. 3 Arrigoni/Desmars (LU) def. Caspari/Rogers (FMU), 8-4.

Francis Marion will play host to North Georgia College & State University on Sunday at 11 a.m.