April 10, 2004

Jamaica, N. Y. - The St. John's men's tennis team improved to 9-8 overall after picking up two wins this afternoon at the courts at St. John's. The Red Storm, who are now 3-1 in BIG EAST action, swept conference foe Connecticut, 7-0, for their fifth-straight win, before beating Fairleigh Dickinson 6-0, making it six-straight.

In the first match of the day, the Red Storm outplayed the Huskies in every match, dropping only one set on the afternoon.

The doubles pairs of Louis Desmarteaux/Claudio Holim and David Nylen/Morgan Bauer each beat won by a score of 8-5, beating Matt Stinson/Brian Ravesloof and Sam Sutherland/George Rzepecki in the No. 1 and No. 3 spots, respectively. Todd Goldberg and Nick Stocker walked away with an easy 8-2 win over Andy Sweatt and Joel Gouroran at the No. 2 spot.

Desmarteaux kicked things off with a 6-2 6-2 win over Stinson in the No. 1 singles spot and was followed by a 6-3, 6-2 Nylen win over Sweatt at No. 2. Aurelio Di Zazzo easily beat Brian Ravesloot, 6-2, 6-2 at No. 3 to clinch the match for St. John's, and was followed by wins from Stocker (6-2, 4-6 (10-4)), Bauer (6-3, 6-1) and Holim (6-2, 6-1) at the four, five and six spots.

After the sweep of Connecticut, the Red Storm took Fairleigh Dickinson 6-0 in non-conference action. Desmarteaux once again won at the No. 1 spot (7-5, 6-4) and Nylen gave St. John's a 2-0 advantage with an easy 6-3, 6-1 win in the second singles match.

Bauer won his second match of the day, 6-2, 6-0 in the third spot and Holim clinched the match with a 6-0, 6-2 win at No. 4.