March 11, 2005

EASTON, Pa. (www.lafayette.edu) - Lafayette's men's and women's tennis teams will visit the Carolinas for a series of matches during the school's March 14-18 Spring Break.

The trip south will mark Lafayette Tennis' first venture into the Carolinas since the Leopard men's team played in Hilton Head, S.C. in 1995.

Lafayette will play four times in four days, beginning on Monday at the College of Charleston. The men get underway at noon, followed by the women at 2 p.m. The teams will be in action at the same time on Tuesday and Wednesday, visiting Charleston Southern and Campbell at noon and 2 p.m., respectively.

The women wrap up the spring trip against Coastal Carolina on Thursday, while the men will play Coastal Carolina on Thursday morning and Marist, which is also traveling south for the week, on Thursday afternoon at Coastal Carolina's courts.

Lafayette's men's and women's teams are back in action at home on March 20, hosting Delaware. The women's match gets underway at 11 a.m., with the men's match to follow at 2 p.m.