COLUMBUS, Ga.----The Lander men's tennis team recorded its eighth shut out of the season Saturday when the No. 8-ranked Bearcats defeated Columbus State, 9-0, in a Peach Belt Conference match.

Lander improves to 13-5 overall and 7-1 in the PBC.

In doubles, No. 1 Joakim Karlsson/Andre Ivarsson (Lander) def. Guillermo
Echevarria/Luis Gonzalez-Tolentino, 8-3; No. 2 Guilherme Fonseca/Nicolas Legros (Lander) def. Paul Van Rensburg/Nemanja Djuric, 8-3; No. 3 Carlos Benatzky/Henrik Willers (Lander) def. Igor Grbic/Brent
Schoening, 8-5.

In singles, No. 1 Karlsson (Lander) def. Echevarria, 6-4, 7-6 (10-3); No. 2 Legros (Lander) def. Djuric, 6-4, 6-4; No. 3 Fonseca (Lander) def. Grbic, 2-6, 6-0, 6-3; No. 4 Ivarsson (Lander) def. Van Rensburg, 7-6, 1-6, (10-4); No. 5 Wilkinson (Lander) def. Gonzalez-Tolentino, 6-3, 7-5; and No. 6 Willers (Lander) def. Vasilescu, 6-2, 6-2.