MACON, Ga. – In a Sunday match that was delayed several times by rain, the Wofford College men's tennis team was defeated 4-3 by Mercer at the LeRoy Peddy Tennis Center. The Terriers won the doubles point and each team won two singles matches before the match was halted with Wofford leading 3-2. When play resumed Monday morning, the Bears won both remaining matches for a 4-3 win.
After a morning rain storm, the match start was delayed by nearly three hours. Once underway, the Bears won the #2 doubles match 6-2. Wofford answered as the pair of
Ashe Ray and
Ian Rasheed won at #3 doubles. At #1 doubles, the match was tied five times before the Bears led 6-5 over the Wofford pair of
Robbie Young and
Will Fullett. The Terriers tied the match at 6 and then won the tiebreaker 7-4 to claim the doubles point.
In singles,
Alex Horn took the #6 position by a 6-1, 6-3 score and
Jack Deveney won 6-0, 6-2 at the #5 singles spot. The Bears then took the #3 and #4 positions in straight sets, with Wofford holding a 3-2 lead in the overall match.
The final two singles matches both went to three sets. At the #2 position,
Ashe Ray won the first set 6-4, but dropped the second set 2-6. Ray jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the third set before the Bears tied it at 4-4. At #1 singles,
Max Graham won the first set 6-3 before falling 3-6 in the second set and he was trailing 0-5 in the third set when the match was halted with a rain delay.
Play resumed on Monday morning, with the Bears claiming the third set at #1 singles 6-0 to tie the match at 3-3. At #2 singles, Mercer won the last two games for a 6-4 win which gave the Bears the overall match victory.
Wofford (6-7, 1-1) will return home on Tuesday, March 19 to host UNCG at 3:30 p.m. Mercer is now 3-9 overall and 1-0 in SoCon play.
Wofford at Mercer
Doubles Results
1.
Will Fullett/
Robbie Young (WOF) def. Lucas Dini/Andrew Branicki (MER) 7-6 (7-4)
2. Marceau Fouilhoux/Nemanja Stefanovic (MER) def.
Max Graham/
Hugo Rask (WOF) 6-2
3.
Ashe Ray/
Ian Rasheed (WOF) def. Samuel Barrow/Samuel MacLeod (MER) 6-4
Singles Results
1. Lucas Dini (MER) def.
Max Graham (WOF) 3-6, 6-3, 6-0
2. Marceau Fouilhoux (MER) def.
Ashe Ray (WOF) 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
3. Samuel Barrow (MER) def.
Robbie Young (WOF) 6-1, 6-4
4. Samuel MacLeod (MER) def.
Will Fullett (WOF) 6-3, 6-0
5.
Jack Deveney (WOF) def. Victor Putter (MER) 6-0, 6-2
6.
Alex Horn (WOF) def. Andrew Branicki (MER) 6-1, 6-3
