STARKVILLE, Miss. – South Alabama’s postseason came to an end on a 4-0 setback to No. 7 Mississippi State in the second round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Championship.
 
The Jaguars ranked pair of sophomores Loic Cloes and Clement Marzol grabbed a 6-2 win over the top-ranked doubles team in the country in Nuno Borges and Strahinja Rakic at No. 1 but the host Bulldogs grabbed the doubles point with wins at other two positions.
 
Mississippi State closed out the match with singles wins at the Nos. 2, 4 and 6. South Alabama closed the season with a 15-10 record.
 
The season is not over for Cloes and Marzol as the duo Cloes and Marzol will compete in the men’s 32-team doubles draw May 23-28 at the Wake Forest Tennis Complex in Winston-Salem, N.C.
                                                                            
2018 NCAA DIVISION I TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
 
Men’s Second Round
Doubles
1. #51 Loic Cloes/Clement Marzol (USA) def. #1 Nuno Borges/Strahinja Rakic (MSU) 6-2
2. #38 Niclas Braun/Giovanni Oradini (MSU) def. Olivier Gingras/Sacha Modica (USA) 6-3
3. Florian Broska/Trevor Foshey (MSU) def. Santiago di Loreto/Maxime Lapraille (USA) 6-0
Singles
1. #2 Nuno Borges (MSU) vs. Clement Marzol (USA) 6-4, 4-4 (susp.)
2. #23 Giovanni Oradini (MSU) def. Loic Cloes (USA) 6-3, 6-4
3. #84 Strahinja Rakic (MSU) vs. Sacha Modica (USA) 4-6, 4-3 (susp.)
4. Niclas Braun (MSU) def. Lucas Gonzalez (USA) 6-2, 6-3
5. Florian Broska (MSU) vs. Olivier Gingras (USA) 6-7(3), 3-1 (susp.)
6. Trevor Foshey (MSU) def. Maxime Lapraille (USA) 6-2, 6-4

Order of finish: Doubles (3, 1, 2); Singles (4, 6, 2)