Results

        NEW ORLEANS — Santiago Perez and Juan Ramirez delivered senior-day victories, and Megh Patel clinched in doubles and singles to help NAIA No. 5 Xavier University of Louisiana score a 4-3 men's tennis decision at home Thursday against sixth-ranked William Carey.
        Perez, No. 1 in the ITA NAIA singles rankings, trailed 5-2 in the second set before beating seventh-ranked Daniil Klimov 6-1, 7-5 on the first court. Ramirez, ranked 35th nationally, beat 17th-ranked Anton Magnusson 6-3, 6-0 on court two.
        Perez and Ramirez, No. 2 nationally as a doubles team, defeated eighth-ranked Klimov and Iskandar Karimov 6-1 on court one. Patel and Jacobi Bain clinched the doubles point with their 6-4 victory against Magnusson and Lachlan Vickery, and Patel clinched the team victory at No. 3 singles with a 7-6 (7-0), 6-1 victory against Karimov.
        Seniors Ramirez, Uriah Miller and brothers Santiago and Sebastian Perez were honored in a prematch ceremony.
        XULA is 16-5 — the Gold Rush have won 25 straight at home dating to 2018 — and William Carey is 8-4. It was the regular-season finale for the XULA men, who will compete April 21-23 in an NAIA unaffiliated group tournament at Springfield, Mo..
        "It was a great win for the Rush on a special day, senior day," XULA head coach Alan Green said. "Our top half of lineup really carried us. Juan David Ramirez played huge, flipping the score on the same guy who got him last time. Juan David played like a man on a mission from the very first point to the last."
        XULA earned its first victory against a top-10 opponent in 2011. Beating Carey upped the Gold Rush total to 38 in 12 seasons.