GREENWOOD - The No. 16-ranked Lander men's tennis team upset No. 14 Francis Marion Friday afternoon in the Peach Belt Conference opener for both teams at The Joe Cabri Courts when the Bearcats won two of three doubles matches and four of six singles.

Lander improves to 5-1 overall and 1-0 in the PBC, while Francis Marion moves to 2-1, 0-1.

In No. 1 singles, 25th-ranked Paul-Henri Arrigoni of Lander, upset ninth-ranked Oshada Wijemanne, 7-5, 3-6, 6-1, giving Lander its fifth point and the match. In No. 2 singles, Francis Marion's 17th-ranked Dilshod Sharifi def. Henrik Willers, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. In other singles matches, No. 3 Levan Clark (LU) def. Karl Rogers (FMU), 6-1, 6-3; No. 4 Christopher Mattsson (LU) def. Dirk Bair (FMU), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4; No. 5 Alex Caspari (FMU) def. Pierre Frances (LU), 6-2, 6-1; and No. 6 Juan Manrique (LU) def. Jack Bishop (FMU), 6-2, 6-4.

In doubles, FMU's No. 2-ranked team of Sharifi/Wijemanne defeated Lander's Clark/Frances, 8-3. In other doubles matches, No. 2 Mattsson/Willers (LU) def. Bair/Bishop (FMU), 8-1; and No. 3 Arrigoni/Desmars (LU) def. Caspari/Rogers (FMU), 8-4.