Results

        GREENTOWN, Ind. — Shaikh Abdullah and Juan Varon won third-set super tiebreakers Friday to help Xavier University of Louisiana pull away for a 4-2 men's tennis victory against Union (Ky.) in the IWU Invitational.
        XULA, 10-8 and ranked 11th in the NAIA, won its fifth in a row and defeated a top-10 opponent for the first time this season. Union (7-5) is ranked eighth.
        Union's Mihailo Radosavlijev defeated Megh Patel 6-2, 4-6, 1-0 (12-10) to tie the dual at 2. But Abdullah put XULA ahead to stay with his 6-0, 5-7, 1-0 (10-5) victory against Simon Campos, and Varon clinched for the second consecutive day when he defeated Sergio Lizzarga 2-6, 6-3, 1-0 (10-8).
        Abdullah is 9-0 in his last 10 singles matches.
        Varon and teammate Santiago Perez won in doubles and singles. Varon and Juan Ramirez clinched the doubles point with their 7-6 (7-5) victory against Campos and Radosavlijev. Perez and his brother, Sebastian, beat Sebastiano Zorzi and Pablo Merino 6-4, then Perez defeated Zorzi 6-1, 6-0.
        Wet weather forced XULA indoors for the second consecutive day. XULA is scheduled to play two NAIA top-10 teams Saturday at Indiana Wesleyan's Sutter Tennis Center: No. 4 Cardinal Stritch at 11 a.m. and No. 7 Indiana Wesleyan at 4 p.m. Times are Eastern. The weather forecast: 90-percent chance of rain and a high of 68 degrees.