The Niagara men’s tennis program will host the New Jersey Tech Highlanders on Friday, March 1 and Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons on Monday, March 4 prior to their spring break trip to northern Virginia.
NU (4-3), which started 4-0 for the first time since the 2005-06 season, is out to halt its three-match skid.
Sophomore
David Raymond leads the team with a 10-6 record in singles action, and is followed by classmates
Olivier Dufour-Coursol (9-5) and
Lorenz Schwojer (8-4). Junior
Mathieu Lacasse has the team’s longest win streak at three matches after picking up wins against Duquesne, Bucknell and Buffalo and is 7-3 in his last 10 matches.
NJIT is 7-2 on the season and Markus Schultz leads the Highlanders with a 7-0 mark in singles. NU’s opponent on Monday, IPFW, is 3-9 this season with this week’s Summit Leauge Player of the Week Martin Muadi leading the team with a 7-5 record.