April 10, 2001

BALTIMORE (www.lafayette.edu) - The Lafayette men's tennis team was back into action on Tuesday after two washouts over the weekend as they swept Loyola, 7-0, in Baltimore.

H'Cone Thompson (Washington, D.C./DeMatha) won his No. 1 singles match over John McConnell, 7-5, 6-2 to improve to 10-7 in his flight on the season. Co-captain Dan Seward (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks West) was a 6-2, 6-1 victor in No. 2 singles over Brian Johnson and Ryan Collins (Whitehouse Station, N.J./Hunterdon Central Regional) improved to 13-4 on the year with a hard-fought 6-2, 7-6 (4), 6-3 win over John Glowacki in No. 3 singles.

Co-captain Mike Levey (Pine Brook, N.J./Montville), Mike Durette (Avon, Conn./Suffield Academy) and Lazar Nikolic (Belgrade, Yugoslavia/Walker) won singles flights four through six.

Loyola falls to 11-9 overall this year with the loss to the Leopards.

Lafayette improves to 6-7 on the year as they return home to face Navy on Friday at 3:00 p.m.

Singles Results
#1 H'Cone Thompson (LC) def. John McConnell (LOY) 7-5, 6-2
#2 Dan Seward (LC) def. Brian Johnson (LOY) 6-2, 6-1
#3 Ryan Collins (LC) def. John Glowacki (LOY) 6-2, 7-6 (4), 6-3
#4 Mike Levey (LC) def. John Quirk (LOY) 7-5, 7-6 (5)
#5 Mike Durette (LC) def. Ryan Bradley (LOY) 7-5, 6-2
#6 Lazar Nikolic (LC) def. Manny Acevedo (LOY) 6-1, 1-6, 6-3 Doubles Results
#1 Collins/Durette (LC) def. Johnson/Glowacki (LOY) 8-6
#2 Thompson/Nikolic (LC) def. Acevedo-Reid/Bradley (LOY) 8-5
#3 Levey/Murphy (LC) def. Quirk/Rao (LOY) 8-6