AMHERST, N.Y. - The Daemen College men's tennis team saw its modest two match winning streak come to an end today after dopping an 8-1 decision to defending East Coast Conference champions from N.Y. Institute of Technology at the courts behind Sweet Home High School.

Daemen, which had defeated Division I Coppin State University (6-1) and Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference affiliate University of the Sciences (5-4) last weekend, saw their quest for their first ECC win of the season halted by the visiting Bears who were picked to win the league once again this season.  The loss drops Daemen to 4-16 overall, and 0-4 in ECC play and it officially eliminates them from contention for an ECC Tournament berth.  NYIT improves to 12-3 overall, and a perfect 3-0 in league play with the win, completing a sweep of their upstate N.Y. tour when paired with earlier wins over Le Moyne College (9-0) and Roberts Wesleyan College (9-0).

The loss was Daemen's seventh this season against teams who advanced to the NCAA Tournament last season.

The visitors opened things up today by sweeping through doubles play.  The Wildcats battled, especially in third doubles where the duo of Andrew LeMar (North Tonawanda, N.Y./North Tonawanda) and David Gonzalez Villegas (Pereira, Colombia, Liceo Frances de Pereira) suffered an 8-4 defeat to Tomas Lieb and Alexandre Martinez.

In singles action, NYIT sealed their dual-match victory with wins in the first, second, third, fourth and sixth positions.  Matej Selecky, David Jiang, the ECC Preseason Player of the Year Lieb, Rares Ispas and Kevin Hunyh were the singles winners for the guests.

Daemen avoided the shutout with a hard-fought, three-set victory (6-4, 1-6, 1-0) in fifth singles from freshman Justin Milner (Ithaca, N.Y./Ithaca) over NYIT's Jamie Salvador.

The Wildcats return to non-conference play with a trip to Millersville University on Monday (April 18) before closing out their 2015-16 campaign with an ECC contest against rival Roberts Wesleyan next Wednesday (April 20).