Feb. 5, 2000

Homewood, Ill. - Xavier spoiled UIC's first home match of the season, downing the Flames, 6-1, Saturday morning at the Homewood-Flossmoor Racquet Club.

Freshman Karl Morgan tallied UIC's lone win with a 6-2, 2-6, 1-0 victory over Xavier's Rob Bakker. Morgan is now a team-best 11-5 in singles play this season.

Under an experimental format, a match tie-breaker is now played in lieu of a third set. The first player to reach 10 points by a margin of two wins the match.

While this rule proved advantageous to Morgan, Jason Kerr and Angel Ochoa both came up on the short end of their third set tie-breakers.

The Flames, who fell to 0-6 with the loss, have little time to dwell on the loss as they battle Western Illinois this afternoon at 1:00 p.m.

FINAL RESULTS
Xavier                6UIC                   1
Singles Results:No. 1 - Danny Sturdevan (XU) def. Nick Bodmer (UIC) 6-2, 7-5No. 2 - Karl Morgan (UIC) def. Rob Bakker (XU) 6-2, 2-6, 1-0No. 3 - Aaron Bauer (XU) def. Jason Kerr (UIC) 6-2, 4-6, 1-0No. 4 - Kyle Bates (XU) def. Bill Schmidt (UIC) 6-3, 6-3No. 5 - Kevin McEnery (XU) def. Angel Ochoa (UIC) 3-6, 6-4, 1-0No. 6 - Christian Lovelace (XU) def. Vijay Krishnamoorthy (UIC) 6-2, 6-1
Doubles Results:No. 1 - Sturdevan/Baker (XU) def. Bodmer/Morgan (UIC) 8-4No. 2 - Bauer/McEnery (XU) def. Kerr/Schmidt (UIC) 9-7No. 3 - Bates/Siddiqui (XU) def. Ochoa/Krishnamoorthy (UIC) 8-3