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MURFREESBORO, NC-The Â鶹ÊÓƵ men's tennis team picked up a 9-0 regional win over Fairmont State University on Sunday afternoon. The Hawks advance to an overall 12-6 record with the victory while, the Fighting Falcons dropped to 11-7 overall after the loss. Fairmont is ranked number two in the Atlantic Region while Chowan is number four.

In doubles competition,  and  defeated Guilherme Pachane and Tom Liddy 8-2.  and  beat Joao Lucas Alves and Micah Higuess 8-6 in the number two doubles match while,  and  teamed up for a win over Micah Hornak and Dillon Early 8-6 at the number three doubles position.

Heading into singles play, Chowan led Fairmont 3-0. Kaliakperov won the first singles match over Alves 6-4, 5-7, 10-8 while, Hajizada beat Hornak 6-1, 6-1 in the number two singles. At the number three singles match Izycki won a tiebreaker 3-6, 6-3, 11-9 over Pachane before Goncalves earned the number four singles play 1-6, 6-1, 6-3 over Early. Yeh picked up the fifth singles match over Liddy 6-2, 4-6, 10-8 for the Hawks. Proulx played the sixth singles position to Alec Mogan and grabbed the 7-5, 6-1 win.

The Hawks are back in action when they travel to Staunton, Virginia for a non-conference match up against University of Charleston. First serve is set for 3:00pm.