March 4, 2005

FARMVILLE, Va. -- Longwood University dropped a 6-1 men’s tennis decision to visiting Elon University Friday at the Lancer Courts in Farmville.  The Lancers are now 0-4 this season and will play again Saturday, March 5, at Gardner-Webb beginning at 3 p.m. in North Carolina.

Against Elon, Longwood garnered a win in singles from freshman Ross McBee/Stafford (Colonial Forge) at #6 (7-6, 1-6, 7-6), and in doubles from junior Tobias Guennel/Plauen, Germany (Albert Einstein-Gymnasium) and freshman Mani Barajas-Alexander/Arlington (Bishop O'Connell) at #2 (8-4).  The doubles win does not count toward the team scoring as a team must win two of three doubles matches for the one team point.

Elon 6, @Longwood 1
Doubles
1. Pramote Malasitt/Austin Fenn (EU) def. Rashko Patnikov/Ian Young (LU), 8-1
2. Tobias Guennel/Mani Barajas-Alexander (LU) def. Brian Edmundson/Kyle Smialek (EU), 8-4
3. Sebastian Bredberg/George Memory (EU) def. Chris Newman/Ross McBee (LU), 8-6

Singles
1. Malasitt (EU) def. Guennel (LU), 6-1, 6-1
3. Fenn (EU) def. Patnikov (LU), 3-6, 7-5, 10-8
2. Bredberg (EU) def. Newman (LU), 2-6, 6-3, 6-3
4. Edmundson (EU) def. Barajas-Alexander (LU), 6-4, 6-1
5. Smialek (EU) def. Young (LU), 7-5, 6-1
6. McBee (LU) def. Alex Garrett (EU), 7-6, 1-6, 7-6