April 14, 2002

EASTON, Pa. (www.lafayette.edu) - The Lafayette men's tennis team dropped a Patriot League match up to Colgate, 5-2, on Sunday at Sullivan Courts.

Freshman Matt Coin won the top singles spot over Colgate's Reed Hagmann in three sets, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3. Junior co-captain H'Cone Thompson defeated the Raiders' Eric Saccullo in straight sets, 6-1, 6-2.

Colgate swept the remaining four singles matches to take a 4-2 lead. Junior Ryan Collins dropped the No. 4 match to J.P. Johnson after a first-set tiebreaker, 7-6 (3), 6-2. Colgate's Evan Ambrose toppled Lafayette's John Zazzu in three sets, 1-6, 7-6 (7), (5). Senior co-captain Mike Levey and freshman Brian Schubert fell at No. 5 and 6 singles to Colgate's Zander Lowe and Peter Oman.

The Raiders earned the doubles point with a sweep of all three matches.

Lafayette (13-6, 1-5) closes out its' regular season by hosting archrival Lehigh tomorrow at 2:30 p.m.

Complete ResultsSingles:1. Matt Coin (LC) def. Reed Hagmann (CU), 6-4, 5-7, 6-32. H'Cone Thompson (LC) def. Eric Saccullo (CU), 6-1, 6-23. J.P. Johnson (CU) def. Ryan Collins (LC), 7-6 (3), 6-24. Evan Ambrose (CU) def. John Zazzu (LC), 1-6, 7-6 (7), (5)5. Zander Lowe (CU) def. Mike Levey (LC), 6-0, 6-16. Peter Oman (CU) def. Brian Schubert (LC), 6-0, 6-1
Doubles:1. Hagmann/Saccullo (CU) def. Coin/Thompson (LC), 8-42. Lowe/Jon Bedard (CU) def. Alex Karapetian/Murphy (LC), 8-23. Johnson/Ambrose (CU) def. Collins/Zazzu (LC), 8-2