MERIDIAN – The 16th-ranked Jones College Bobcats defeated Oxford-Emory (Georgia) 8-1 at Northeast Park Tennis Center on Saturday.
Jones improved to 4-0 with its fourth win in six days, while Oxford-Emory drops to 2-2.
Jones began the day by sweeping the doubles points.
Tomi Nader (Argentina) and
Nacho Vanecek (Argentina) blanked Zack Ravel and Jahaan Sachdeva in No. 1 doubles, 8-0.
Tanner Bevard (Sacred Heart) and
Jackson Peoples (Northwest Rankin) beat Frank Lu and Tyler Yamato-Chang in No. 2 doubles, 8-4.
John Jabour (Warren Central) and
Trey Hilton (Pearl) defeated Ryan Talano and Alexander Szymanski in No. 3 doubles, 8-2.
Prescott Schaumberg (Indianola Academy) and
Jack Owens (Brandon) downed Mark Li and Stephen Orr in an extra match, 8-2.
Nader blanked Ravel in No. 1 singles, 6-0, 6-0. Bevard defeated Yamato-Chang in No. 2 singles, 6-0, 6-2. Vanecek defeated Lu in No. 3 singles, 6-1, 6-2. Peoples whipped Sachdeva in No. 4 singles, 6-1, 6-1 and Hilton downed Talano in No. 5 singles, 6-2, 6-0. Schaumberg lost in No. 6 singles to Szymanski, 3-6, 1-6.
In extra matches, Jabour defeated Li, 4-0, Owens beat Orr, 6-4, and
Tahir El-Zare (Hattiesburg) downed Sheryar Lakhani, 8-3.
The Bobcats return to MACCC play when they visit East Central for a 2 p.m. match on Tuesday. Oxford-Emory meets Meridian at 10 a.m. Sunday.
