Box Score CENTRAL, SC – Forty-seventh-ranked Francis Marion University claimed three easy doubles wins and then captured five of six singles matches to record a 6-1 road win at Southern Wesleyan University, Friday afternoon (April 22) in Conference Carolinas men's tennis action. 
 
Francis Marion (11-6, 5-4) will play its final regular-season match at North Greenville University on Saturday at noon. A victory would ensure FMU no worse than a fifth-place finish in the conference standings, and possibly a fourth-place showing.
 
FMU freshmen Martin Barbera and Harri Lloyd-Evans opened doubles action with a 6-0 win at the No.2 position.  Freshman Luis Lopez Sarasa and sophomore Adam Ernberg followed with a 6-1 victory at No.2 and sophomores Liam Day and Leonel Gonzalez won 6-2 at No.1.
 
Lopez Sarasa upped the advantage to 2-0 with a 6-0, 6-0 blanking at No.5 singles, while improving his season record to 11-5.  Day claimed a 6-2, 6-2 win at the top spot to up his season mark to 12-4, and Lloyd-Evans clinched the match for the Patriots with a 6-2, 6-3 win at No.2 singles.  The freshman now has a 13-2 singles mark in his first season in Florence.
 
The other two FMU points were recorded by Barbera (6-4, 6-3) at No.4 and Ernberg (6-0, 6-1) at No.6, with Barbera reaching double-figure singles win with his straight-sets decision.
 
 
Men's Tennis Match Results
4/22/2022 at Central, SC (Rev Leroy C Cox)
#47 Francis Marion University 6, Southern Wesleyan 1
Singles competition
1. Liam Day (FMU) def. Sarvesh Maria (SWU) 6-2, 6-2
2. Harri Lloyd-Evans (FMU) def. Julio Lopes Polesi (SWU) 6-2, 6-3
3. Enzo Marcheschi (SWU) def. Leonel Gonzalez (FMU) 2-6, 7-6 (7-3), 6-3
4. Martin Barbera (FMU) def. Fabian Segreda (SWU) 6-4, 6-3
5. Luis Lopez Sarasa (FMU) def. Cole Farren (SWU) 6-0, 6-0
6. Adam Ernberg (FMU) def. Dylan Johns (SWU) 6-0, 6-1
Doubles competition
1. Liam Day/Leonel Gonzalez (FMU) def. Sarvesh Maria/Enzo Marcheschi (SWU) 6-2
2. Martin Barbera/Harri Lloyd-Evans (FMU) def. Julio Lopes Polesi/Fabian Segreda (SWU) 6-0
3. Luis Lopez Sarasa/Adam Ernberg (FMU) def. Cole Farren/Dylan Johns (SWU) 6-1
 
Match Notes: Francis Marion (11-6, 5-4) Ranked #47
Southern Wesleyam (5-13, 3-6)
Order of finish: Doubles (2,3,1); Singles (5,1,2,4,3,6)