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OFFICE OF SPORTS INFORMATION Sports Release April 15, 2008 LMU Upsets Second-Seeded Mars Hill In SAC Tournment MARS HILL, NC – The seventh seeded Lincoln Memorial University men’s tennis team upset second seed Mars Hill 5-3 in the opening round of the 2008 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Tournament on Tuesday. LMU, who improved to 5-10 on the season, advances to the semifinal round to face No. 3 Newberry College in Rock Hill on Friday. Newberry defeated No. 6 Catawba College earlier today, 5-0. MHC ends their 2008 campaign with a 13-6 overall record.
After winning 2-of-3
doubles matches, LMU won three singles matches to seal the win.
Hannes Ganss, Bastian Guenther and Zack Jones
were victorious for the Railsplitters in singles while the doubles
teams of Ganss and Guenther won at No. 1 doubles while Gabor
Heredi-Szabo and Zack Jones won at No. 3 doubles.
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