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HATTIESBURG, Miss. \u2013 The New Orleans Privateers men’s tennis team had two singles matches stretch to three sets but wound up on the wrong side of both in a 6-1 loss to the Southern Miss Golden Eagles on Friday afternoon.
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\nThe Golden Eagles got out to a quick start with a pair of 6-2 victories in doubles. Kale Mize and Jay Temming<\/a> had a 6-2 decision at flight one. Ollie Noltorp and Ritabrata Sarkar followed with a similar score line at flight three to give Southern Miss the first point of the day.
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\nWhen it broke into singles, Evgenios Vasilakis<\/a> was one of the first singles matches to finish and it notched the first point for the Privateers. Vasilakis only conceded three games in a 6-2, 6-1 win against Temming at flight five.
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\nSouthern Miss won the other three matches in straight sets to help seal the victory. Mize won 6-2, 6-2 at flight one. Sarkar won 6-4, 6-1 at flight six and Noltorp notched a 6-1, 6-3 victory at flight four.
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\nThe other two matches to finish had razor thin margins between both players. Carlos Melgosa<\/a> won a second set tiebreaker to take his match to the third at flight three but Saheb Sodhi won the deciding set 6-4.
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\nBeltran Fernandez<\/a> dominated the first set but Jose Murariu took the second by a single break. With the match decided, the two players were engaged in a 10-point tiebreak that went down to the wire. Murariu won the tiebreak 11-9 to finish the day for Southern Miss.
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