No. 13 Gulf Coast cruises past SMCC

No. 13 Mississippi Gulf Coast took care of Southwest Mississippi 7-2 in men's tennis action Tuesday in Summit.

Gonzalo Cotter (Fr., Valencia, Spain/IVLA) and Hiram Havard (So., Vancleave/Vancleave) won easily at No. 1 singles, as did Vicente Faria (Fr., Lisbon, Portugal/Escola Secundária de Fonseca Benevides) and Jeremiah Layton (Fr., Brookhaven/Brookhaven) at No. 2.

Cotter swept his No. 1 singles match without dropping a game. Havard, Layton and Smith Walker (Fr., Gulfport/Gulfport) dropped only one game each in their singles matches.

Gulf Coast (6-6, 6-1 MACCC) will host No. 19 Meridian on Thursday at the MGCCC Tennis Complex. First serves are set for 2 p.m.

Results

Team: Gulf Coast men 7, Southwest Mississippi 2

Doubles

No. 1: Gonzalo Cotter-Hiram Havard (GC) def. Jackson Stanford-Phillip Chandler, 8-1

No. 2: Vicente Faria-Jeremiah Layton (GC) def. Will Knight-Jack Brewer, 8-0

No. 3: Alex Velasquez-Cam Leon (SW) def. Grant Wilson-Smith Walker, 8-6

Singles

No. 1: Cotter (GC) def. Velasquez, 6-0, 6-0

No. 2: Faria (GC) def. Chandler, 6-1, 6-1

No. 3: Havard (GC) def. Stanford, 6-0, 6-1

No. 4: Layton (GC) def. Fairley, 6-0, 6-1

No. 5: Walker (GC) def. Sowell, 6-1, 6-0

No. 6: Leon (SW) def. Wilson, 6-4, 2-6, 10-4

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