Box Score Boiling Springs, N.C.---- After dropping the doubles point to visiting Wingate Thursday afternoon, the Gardner-Webb men's tennis team went on a roll and won five singles matches to take a 5-2 victory over the defending South Atlantic Conference Champion Bulldogs at the Webb Tennis Center.

It was the home-opener for the Runnin' Bulldogs who improved to 3-0 on the young season. Wingate, who was playing its season-opener falls to 0-1.

In the double's competition, Wingate's Hugo Nossler and Luka Brown knocked of Gardner-Webb's No.1 tandem of Eduardo Dias and Johannes Van Wijk, 6-3.

 Edis Nokic and Gabriel Constantino won 6-1 at No.2 doubles over the Runnin Bulldogs' Numa Lemieux-Monette and freshman Jurie Terblanche.

No.3 doubles match did not finish as Wingate held a 1-0 lead heading into singles play.

 In the singles competition, Gardner-Webb won the top four matches to rally for the win.

Dias took the No.1 singles match (6-1, 6-1) over Constantino.

Alex Lepine took the singles No.2 match 7-6, 6-1 and Lemieux-Monette continued the 'Dawgs dominance in the single competition by taking the No.3 spot 6-1, 6-1.

The match clincher was secured in the No.4 singles spot as Kim Niethammer prevailed 6-2, 6-0.

-At singles No.5 Wingate's Nossler won the first set 6-3. The Dawgs' Chrisjan Van Wyk took the second set 6-3 before Nossler prevailed 18-16 in the third set tiebreaker.

The sixth and final singles match was won by Gardner Webb's John Spring, 6-7, 6-1, 6-3 to cap another happy recap for the 'Runnin Bulldogs.

"Wingate jumped on us and beat us badly in doubles like no one has in the past two season, "Gardner-Webb head tennis coach Mike Griffith.  "Give them credit. "We were able to change the momentum with some quick set wins at singles one, three and four. Alex Lepine being able to win a close first  set at No.2 singles took us to victory."

Up Next—Gardner -Webb will be in action next Saturday (2/3) when the "Dawgs visit Belmont-Abby for a match doubleheader. The first match is slated to begin at 10AM and the second around 2:30 PM.