WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. - After four hours on the courts, the Daemen College men's tennis team won a 5-4 match over Alfred University this evening at Miller Tennis Center.  With the win, Daemen improves to 5-11 on the season while the Saxons dropped to 7-4 on the year.

"This was a highly competitive match from the outset," said head coach Stephen Beatty.  

Daemen started off strong with two doubles wins then eventually took a 3-1 lead with a win from John LeMar (North Tonawanda, N.Y./North Tonawanda) at No. 3 singles. Alfred was able to tie the match with wins in No. 1 and No. 4 singles.

Daemen went back up 4-3 with a win from Gregory Lowe (East Aurora, N.Y./East Aurora) at No. 2 singles but Alfred would not go away and was able to win a tight match at No.5 singles.  After losing a match point at 6-5 in the second set, and being down an early break in the third John Wilson (Seneca Falls, N.Y./Mynderse) was able to pull the match out for Daemen in the No. 6 singles slot.

Daemen will be back in action this Friday (Apr. 4) as they travel to Rochester to to take on the Cardinals of St. John Fisher at 4:00 p.m.

FULL RESULTS
#1 Doubles: Connor Doud/Stefan Nonnenmann (Alfred) def. Adam Kerr/John LeMar (Daemen) 8-5
#2 Doubles: Kiran Kudaravalli/John Wilson (Daemen) def. Peter Benoit/Mike Graham (Alfred) 8-4
#3 Doubles: Greg Lowe/Zach Kinnaird (Daemen) def. Eric Teller/Evan Haskins (Alfred) 8-2
Exhibition: Pat Brown/Matt Balago (Alfred) def. Matt Landcastle/Ethan Wincowski (Daemen) 8-5
 
#1 Singles: Doud def. Kudaravalli 6-4, 6-1
#2 Singles: Lowe def. Benoit 6-3, 6-2
#3 Singles: LeMar def. Graham 6-3, 6-1
#4 Singles: Nonnenmann def. Kerr 6-3, 6-1
#5 Singles: Teller def. Kinnaird 7-5, 2-6, 6-3
#6 Singles: Wilson def. Haskins 6-1, 6-7, 6-3
Exh: Alex White def. Dalton Dviine 7-5, 6-2
Exh: Andy Luu def. Pat Brown 5-7, 6-4, 1-0(6)
Exh: Matt Balago def. Taylor Jones 8-1