Cajuns swept by USA 4-0 (Finish 2nd)

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Tough luck. They had a good run.

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Where did they finish in the standings?

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Cajuns fall short in Sun Belt finals

MOBILE, Ala. — Louisiana’s hopes for a Sun Belt Conference men’s tennis title came up one match short here Sunday, as host and top-seeded South Alabama rolled to a 4-0 shutout win in the championship match at USA’s Lubel Courts.

USA (18-5), winning its sixth straight men’s title and its 11th in the last 13 seasons, took the doubles point and claimed three singles matches in straight sets to earn the league’s automatic berth in the NCAA Regional Tournament.

The 56th-ranked Cajuns (12-10), having a four-match win streak snapped, had taken wins over Denver and Middle Tennessee to advance to Sunday’s finals. UL Lafayette, which won the Sun Belt titles in 1992 and 1998, will hope for an at-large berth to the NCAA regionals.

The host Jaguars got a strong performance from No. 2 player Clinton Jacobs, who downed UL Lafayette’s Ananjot Singh 6-0, 6-2 for USA’s first singles point. Jacobs, who went 2-0 in singles and 3-0 in doubles in the tournament, was voted the event’s Most Outstanding Player for the second straight year.

“Jacobs had an unbelievable tournament,” said Cajun coach Justin McGrath. “He was in a zone. His win over Ananjot was really big for them.”

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