Men's Tennis | 3/27/2019 7:28:00 PM

    WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. – The West Liberty University men's tennis team dropped a 7-0 decision to West Virginia Wesleyan here Wednesday in a mutual Mountain East Conference opener at the Edgar Martin Tennis Complex.
    Coach Sam McCullough's youthful Hilltoppers (2-5, 0-1) lost the doubles point by the slimmest of margins and couldn't break through in singles play against the more experienced Bobcats (4-5, 1-0).
    Wesleyan picked up a win at No. 1 doubles but West Liberty had a chance to earn the doubles point when the Hilltoppers carried the No. 2 and No. 3 matches into tiebreakers. Unfortunately for the hosts, the Bobcats prevailed in both tiebreakers to take a 1-0 lead into singles play.
    The visitors claimed straight-set wins in five of the six singles matches. West Liberty's Anton Schulz rebounded from a 6-3 loss in the first set of his No. 3 singles match against Alex Lyudinovskiy to even the match with a 6-4 nod in the second set. That forced the match into a superbreaker with the Wesleyan junior prevailing by a 10-4 count.
    The Hilltoppers hit the road on Friday for a 4 p.m. match at West Virginia State.
  Lukas Laipold (WVW) d. Camilo Moncayo, 6-1 def.
Maycon Dias (WVW) d. Joris Gravoulet, 6-0 6-2
Alex Lyudinovskiy (WVW) d. Anton Schulz, 6-3 4-6 1-0 (4)
Harry Simaioforidis (WVW) d. Maurits Smit, 7-5 6-3
Christos Kyrillou (WVW) d. Akira Kawabata, 7-5 6-2
Thomas McIntosh (WVW) d. Nash Morris, 6-1 6-3 Dias/Simaioforidis (WVW) d. Moncayo/Gravoulet, 6-4
Laipold/Kyrillou (WVW) d. Schulz/Smit, 7-6 (2)
McIntosh/Mario Borovcanin (WVW) d. Kawabata/Morris, 7-6 (3)