NEW ORLEANS, La. --- The Mississippi College men's tennis team opened the 2020 season with a 7-0 loss to NAIA #2 Xavier (LA) on Saturday afternoon at the XULA Tennis Center.
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HOW IT HAPPENED
 - The Gold Rush picked up the doubles point with wins at #1 and #2.
 - The #3 team of
Maksym Konovalov and
Ben Jarvis led 5-3 before the match was called with the double point already decided.
 - In singles action,
Shane Samyn took his match at #3 to three sets, but Shaikh Abdullah won 6-2 in the final stanza to grab the win.
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Brady McDaniel also took his match to three sets, but Xavier (LA) picked up the clean sweep.
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NEXT UP
 - The Choctaws will be back in action on Sunday when they face Loyola (LA) at 1:00 p.m. in New Orleans.
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Mississippi College is a private Christian university located in Clinton, Mississippi with an enrollment of over 5,000 students. MC recently finished their transition process back to NCAA Division II and the Gulf South Conference and began competing for conference and national championships in the 2016-17 academic year.
The athletic department sponsors 17 intercollegiate athletic programs: Baseball, Men's and Women's Basketball, Men's and Women's Cross Country, Football, Golf, Men's and Women's Soccer, Softball, Men's and Women's Tennis, Men's and Women's Indoor Track & Field, Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field and Volleyball.
For more information on Mississippi College athletics, please contactÂ
David Nichols at 601-925-3234 orÂ
nichols@mc.edu.
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