ROCHESTER, N.Y. - The Daemen College men's tennis team suffered a 6-3 defeat today in an East Coast Conference dual match vs. Roberts Wesleyan College.

The loss drops Daemen to 6-16 overall and 0-3 in ECC play this season, and it was their sixth loss by three points or fewer.  The match, which was postponed from its original schedule date of April 11 due to weather, was Daemen's first since picking up a 7-2 non-league win April 2 at Caldwell University.

The host Redhawks improved to 13-10 overall, while securing their first league win of the season (1-2).  They've now won two-straight matches after losing six in a row from mid-March through early April.

RWC took a 2-1 lead in the match following doubles play.  Daemen got on the board with an 8-4 win on the second doubles court by senior Adam Kerr (Penfield, N.Y./McQuaid Jesuit) and freshman Fabian Wilde (Crimmitschau, Germany/Julius-Motteler).  But, the hosts grabbed the remaining two points, including a hotly contested 9-8 win on the first doubles court from Hugo Ball-Greene (Paris, France) and Dennis Barlotta (Holmdel, N.J.) over DC's David Gonzalez Villegas (Pereira, Colombia/Liceo Frances de Pereira) and Ricardo Ruiz Martinez (Valencia, Spain/American International College).

In singles action, Ruiz Martinez continued his hot streak by defeating Barlotta in straight sets (6-3, 6-4) on the No. 3 court.  The Daemen sophomore now leads the team alone with 10 singles wins this season, breaking a tie with junior Mark Veitengruber (Rockford, Mich./Rockford).  Ruiz Martinez has won five-straight singles matches, and eight of his last 10.

Wilde picked up his second point of the match with a three-set win on the fourth singles court, downing RWC's Guilherme Plentz de Liz (Florianapolis, Brazil) 4-6, 6-3, 1-0.  Wilde pulls into a tie with Veitengruber for second on the team with nine singles victories this season.

But, that's as much as the hosts would surrender.  RWC picked up points on the first, second, fifth and sixth singles courts to secure the dual-match victory.

Daemen, which is one win shy of tying the team record for wins in a season, gets back to action Friday when league-leading Queens College heads to Amherst.