EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Austin Peay State University men's tennis picked up a 4-3 win against Southern Indiana, but dropped a 4-3 decision to St. Louis, Saturday and Sunday, at the Evansville Tennis Center.
Austin Peay (3-1) earned its first point against Southern Indiana with Sota Minami and Aeneas Schaub's 6-1 victory over Axel Sabourin and Mathys Bove and Javier Tortajada and Bodi Van Galen's 6-2 victory against Dylan Brown and Guy Finkelstein. Tom Bolton and Giovanni Becchis's match went unfinished at 4-3 with the doubles point already in hand.
Minami went 6-4, 7-5 in his match followed by Becchis's 6-0, 6-3 victory. Van Galen earned the Governor's last point with his 6-4, 6-1 win. Schaub fell to Bove 4-6, 0-6 with Bolton and Tortajada falling to the Screaming Eagles.
Through the Govs secured the doubles point against St. Louis with Minami and Schaub's 6-1 win followed by Bolton and Becchis 6-3 vicotry, Minami and Becchis were the only two Govs to win their singles matches, giving St. Louis the 4-3 victory.
The Govs are back in action on Feb. 23 as they travel to face Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Kentucky.