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Winner Wayne State WSUM (14-4, 2-0)
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Luke Laws won at No. 6 singles and No. 2 doubles.

Match Recap: Men's Tennis | | Zachary Manning, Sports Information Graduate Assistant

Men's Tennis Downs No. 23-Davenport

The Warriors won have won three straight matches.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- The Wayne State University men's tennis team (14-4 overall, 2-0 GLIAC) continued its winning ways, defeating No. 23-Davenport (14-3 overall, 1-1 GLIAC) 6-1 on Saturday afternoon at the Grand Rapids Racquet Club. 

SINGLES
The Warriors won five of the six singles matches.  Dom Spicer (London, England) collected a victory at No. 1 singles, defeating his opponent, 6-2, 6-4.  Spicer received the team's game ball, which is given to the player who competed the best throughout the match. 

At No. 3 singles, Ben Lakeman (Penzance Cornwall, England) was strong, posting a 6-2, 6-1 win. 

Daniel Grey (Wiesbaden, Germany) continued his winning ways, earning a 6-2, 6-1 victory. 

Cedric Drenth (Sulzbach, Germany) pulled out a 6-3, 6-0 win at No. 5 singles.

The final singles win from the Warriors came at No. 6 singles where Luke Laws (Sunderland, England) recorded a 6-1, 6-1 victory. 

Niklas Karcz (Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) was upended 2-6, 0-6 at No. 2 singles.

DOUBLES
The duo of Drenth and Grey proved to be too much to handle for Davenport's No. 15-ranked pair of Jonathan Bulmer and Juan-Louis van Antwerpen.  Drenth and Grey won, 6-2, at No. 1 doubles.

Spicer and Laws registered a 6-2 win at No. 2 doubles.

Finishing doubles play were Karcz and Lakeman, who pulled out a 6-4 victory.

FROM COACH MORROW
"Doubles, we played great.  Probably the best energy we've had all season in doubles.  Davenport's doubles teams are very good. Their No. 1 doubles team in nationally ranked and actually won our ITA's.  Up at No. 1 doubles, we played great.  Took it to them, and dominated in the match.  No. 2 doubles played really clean, really good, dominated.  They played one of the best matches they've played together.  No. 3 doubles also played very, very solid.  We looked really, really good in doubles.  We carried it into singles.  Dom Spicer at No. 1 singles played a guy who is usually in the running for conference player of the year.  Dom won in straight sets and handled himself nicely," coach Bryan Morrow said. 

"At No. 3 singles, Ben Lakeman won 6-2, 6-1 and played very, very well.  Daniel Grey continued playing really, really well.  He also won 6-2, 6-1.  Cedric (Drenth) won 6-3, 6-0 at No. 5 singles and really found his groove in the second set and played spectacularly.  Luke Laws back in the lineup played a really solid match.  He played really well at No. 6 singles.  Good to have him back in the lineup." 

UP NEXT
The Warriors will get their first conference home match of the season.  WSU is scheduled to play Lake Superior State on April 8th at 10 AM. 

 
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