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Indianapolis, Ind. - The No. 36 Lewis University men's tennis team extended its winning streak to three matches, as the Flyers earned the 7-2 Great Lakes Valley Conference road victory over the University of Indianapolis at the UIndy Tennis Center on Saturday (March 30) afternoon.
The Flyers received two victories apiece from sophomores
Armand Levandi (Tallinn, Estonia/Audentese Spordigumnaasiumi) (Tallinn, Estonia/Audentese Spordigumnaasiumi),
Erik Aunapuu (Tallinn, Estonia/Audentese Spordigumnaasiumi) (Tallinn, Estonia/Audentese Spordigumnaasiumi),
John Richert (Indianapolis, Ind./Pike) (Indianapolis, Ind./Pike) and senior
Jesse Hardacre (Racine, Wis./St. Catherine's) (Racine, Wis./St. Catherine's).
"We played very well in the doubles to open up a lead and overcame some early shaky play in singles," Lewis head men's tennis coach
Brett Bridel said. "The bottom half of our singles line-up played very well today.
"This was a good hard-fought conference win."
With the win, Lewis improves to 5-3 overall and 2-0 in GLVC action, while the host Greyhounds are now 4-2 on the season and 1-1 in conference play.
Levandi and Aunapuu opened up with a 9-7 win over UIndy's Ryan Frankel and Fausto Cordova at No. 1 doubles. Levandi added a 6-0, 3-6, 6-4 win over Frankel at No. 1 singles, while Aunapuu earned the 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) come-from-behind victory over Luke Hubert at No. 2 singles.
Hardacre and Richert teamed up for the 8-2 triumph over Preston Swain and Alex Poe at No. 2 doubles. Hardacre chipped in a 6-3, 6-3 win over Trevor Cox at No. 4 singles, while Richert dropped Poe, 7-5, 6-4 at No. 5 singles.
At No. 3 doubles, Lewis juniors
Florian Etienne (Paris, France/Jean de la Fontaine) (Paris, France/Jean de la Fontaine/Shorter) and
Philip Kuenzi (Manitowoc, Wis./Roncalli) (Manitowoc, Wis./Roncalli/Creighton) defeated Cox and Hubert, 8-3.
Lewis returns to action on Thursday (April 4), as the Flyers head to Bourbonnais, Ill., to meet Olivet Nazarene for a 3:30 PM non-conference tilt.
