Hanceville, AL—A scrappy Tiger team bounced back from a few first-set blowouts to make a mismatch a match on Wednesday afternoon at the Wallace State Community College-Hanceville courts.  Even so, the Tigers bowed out, 9-0, to the Lions, but not before Joseph Tanjuatco gave the Colombian Sebastian Gamez all he could handle at No. 1 singles (5-7, 4-6) and Dom Ingram forced Wallace State's Eli Hagen to play some great tennis at No. 4 singles (3-6, 3-6).

However, it was Eddie Hunter at No. 2 singles and Preston Smith at No. 3 singles (both of whom lost their first sets 6-1 and 6-0, respectively) who picked themselves up and dusted themselves off to bounce back in their second sets.  They both lost by identical second-set scores of 4-6.  They were resilient to the end.

Wallace State CC-Hanceville 9, MMI 0

Doubles Competition

1.  Gamez/Coots (WSCC-H) def. Tanjuatco/Smith (MMI) 8-4

2.  Du Plessis/Hagen (WSCC-H) def. Hunter/Ingram (MMI) 8-5

3.  Anderson/Thompson (WSCC-H) def. DelValle/Emmanuel Warner (MMI) 8-1

Singles Competition

1.  Sebastian Gamez (WSCC-H) def. Joseph Tanjuatco (MMI) 7-5, 6-4

2.  Tristan Du Plessis (WSCC-H) def. Eddie Hunter (MMI) 6-1, 6-4

3.  Connor Coots (WSCC-H) def. Preston Smith (MMI) 6-0, 6-4 

4.  Eli Hagen (WSCC-H) def. Dom Ingram (MMI) 6-3, 6-3

5.  Tad Euler (WSCC-H) def. Carson Johnson (MMI) 6-1, 6-2

6.  Gage Anderson (WSCC-H) def. Drake DelValle (MMI) 6-0, 6-2

Next Up:  The Tigers continue on the road to play the Sun Chiefs of Coastal Alabama Community College-South on Monday, March 8, in a 1:00 p.m. match.