Austin Peay Sports Information
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University men’s tennis team runs into a pair of familiar Ohio Valley Conference foes when the Govs travel to Belmont (10:00am, Saturday) and return to Clarksville to host Tennessee State (2:00pm, Sunday) in conference action.
Junior Aleksas Tverijonas remained unbeaten at No. 3 singles, but juniors Dimitar Ristovski and Iago Seffrin dropped their first doubles match of the campaign, ending an 8-0 start to the season.
Belmont – who Austin Peay defeated to win the 2013 OVC Men’s Tennis Tournament in the last meeting between the two sides – is 3-8 overall but defeated Tennessee State, Tuesday, to snap a five-match losing streak. Mauricio Antun leads the Bruins with a 7-4 mark at No. 1 singles.
Tennessee State is 0-6, with their loss to Belmont their only conference blemish to this point.
The Govs combined for a 4-0 mark last season against this weekend’s opponents. Austin Peay won an April 6th doubleheader, 4-0 in non-conference and 5-0 in OVC play, and defeated Belmont 6-1 on April 7th, two weeks before their 4-1 win in the OVC title match.
Austin Peay plays three OVC matches next week. The regularly-scheduled contests against Eastern Illinois (1:00pm, March 29th) and SIU Edwardsville (10:00am, March 30th) go on as planned, with Austin Peay adding a make-up date with Tennessee Tech (1:00pm, March 27th).
