Results

     NEW ORLEANS — Samir Chikhaoui defeated Amer Bedwan 7-6 (7-2), 2-6, 6-4 Saturday to give NAIA No. 2 Xavier University of Louisiana a 5-4 men's tennis victory against NCAA Division I Troy.
     The Gold Rush (9-8), winning for the eighth time in 10 duals, won three three-set singles matches.
     Both XULA teams will play host to DI Jackson State at noon Sunday.
     Chikhaoui won in singles for the seventh time in the last nine matches and snapped Bedwan's six-match win streak.
     Also winning in three for the Rush were Catalin Fifea, who beat Pelayo Antuna 6-4, 4-6, 6-0, and Gabriel Niculescu, who defeated former Troy teammate Jiaqi Duan 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Niculescu won in singles for the first time since Feb. 23 and the second time since Jan. 28.
     Freshman Shaikh Abdullah was the lone XULA player to win in doubles and singles. Abdullah and Antoine Richard cruised past Oskar Michalek and Mustapha Belcora 8-2 on the first doubles court, then Abdullah beat Andy Lau 6-3, 6-4.
     Abdullah has won five of his last six singles matches. He and Richard are 3-1 as doubles team, 2-0 against DIs.
     The Gold Rush have three victories this season against DIs and 40 in coach Alan Green's 15 seasons at XULA. In the three victories vs. DIs this season, Fifea and Chikhaoui are both 3-0 in singles.