FARMVILLE, Va. – Playing fewer than 24 hours after a heartbreaking 4-3 loss to Big South frontrunner Campbell Friday, Longwood righted the ship with a 7-0 sweep of neighboring Hampden-Sydney Saturday morning at the Hampden-Sydney Tennis Courts.
 
Longwood (9-5) won all nine bouts and did not drop a set in singles play to inch closer to securing the program's third consecutive double-digit win season. That dominance came from throughout the lineup, including matching 6-0, 6-0 shutout wins at singles Nos. 4-6.
 
In total, Longwood dropped just 11 sets in singles play en route to their fifth shutout win of the season.
 
That performance came on not even a full day's rest for the Lancers, who bounced back from Friday's narrow loss to the reigning Big South champion Fighting Camels to take the court for an early 9 a.m. first serve against the Tigers (3-8). Longwood took charge from the start, sweeping doubles play behind a 6-2 win at No. 1 from Amadeo Blasco and Raisei Sakai, a 6-3 win at No. 2 from Guilherme Sergio and Guillermo Cagigas, and a 6-1 victory at No. 3 from Julian Farthing and Rosen Naydenov.
 
All six of those Lancers stayed on for singles play, and all six came away with wins as Longwood swept singles play for the fifth time this season.
 
Blasco led the charge with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Hampden-Sydney No. 1 Matthew Moody, improving to 19-3 this season and securing his 69th career win in the process. The win increased his hold on Longwood's all-time singles winning percentage record at .812 (69-16) and to within 20 victories of breaking the school's all-time singles win record of 88 set by Nobu Tanaka.
 
Senior Julian Farthing also inched closer to Tanaka's record Saturday, cruising to a 6-0, 6-0 win at No. 5 over Hampden-Sydney's Clark Cummings. That win was the 72nd of Farthing's career, which ranks second on that all-time list.
 
Sakai and Naydenov joined Farthing with 6-0, 6-0 wins at No. 4 and No. 6, while Sergio and Cagigas handled their matchups as well. Sergio pulled out a 6-0, 6-2 win over Michael Moody at No. 2 to extend his team-leading win streak to 11 straight, while the freshman Cagigas picked up a 6-1, 6-2 win over William Driskill to improve to 10-4 in the first spring of his collegiate career.
 
The win comes as part of a three-match weekend for the Lancers, who will head to Howard Sunday.
 
Longwood 7, Hampden-Sydney 0
3/23/2019
Hampden-Sydney, Va. (Hampden-Sydney Courts)
 
Singles competition
1. BLASCO, Amadeo (LWU) def. MOODY, Matthew (HSC) 6-4, 6-2
2. SERGIO, Guilherme (LWU) def. MOODY, Michael (HSC) 6-0, 6-2
3. CAGIGAS, Guillermo (LWU) def. DRISKILL, William (HSC) 6-1, 6-2
4. SAKAI, Raisei (LWU) def. BRICE, Tyler (HSC) 6-0, 6-0
5. FARTHING, Julian (LWU) def. CUMMINGS, Clark (HSC) 6-0, 6-0
6. NAYDENOV, Rosen (LWU) def. DONELSON, Andrew (HSC) 6-0, 6-0
 
Doubles competition
1. BLASCO, Amadeo/SAKAI, Raisei (LWU) def. MOODY, Michael/MOODY, Matthew (HSC) 6-2
2. SERGIO, Guilherme/CAGIGAS, Guillermo (LWU) def. BURNS, Grayson/DRISKILL, William (HSC) 6-3
3. FARTHING, Julian/NAYDENOV, Rosen (LWU) def. CUMMINGS, Clark/BRICE, Tyler (HSC) 6-1
 
Match Notes
Longwood 9-5
Hampden-Sydney 3-8

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