The UW-Whitewater men's tennis team improved to 16-8 with an 8-1 victory over UW-Oshkosh on Friday in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

UW-W seemed to move easily through the doubles matches but the singles matches were a bit closer with the Warhawks prevailing in five of the six.  The lone singles loss came at the number one position where Danny Glinert (Madison/Edgewood) fell to James Lewison.  Glinert is ranked 24th in the most recent Intercollegiate Tennis Association Central Region poll and Lewison is ranked 25th.

Kelvin Caiati (Greendale/Greendale), Erik Scanlan (Libertyville, IL/Libertyville), and Kyle Halweg (Waunakee/Waunakee) each took three sets to win at the number two, four and six singles spots respectively.  Caiti improves to 17-9 this season, Scanlan to 13-8, and Halweg to 13-12.

The doubles team of Caiati and Glinert improved to a team best 21-6 with their 8-3 victory at the number one doubles slot.

Singles
#1 - James Lewison (Osh) def. Glinert (WW) 6-3, 6-1
#2 - Caiati (WW) def. Nate Kilsdonk (Osh) 6-3, 4-6, 7-6
#3 - Mike Harmatys (Brookfield/East) (WW) def. Dustin Blackburn (Osh) 6-1, 6-1
#4 - Scanlan (WW) def. Robbie Price (Osh) 6-0, 1-6, 6-1
#5 - William Krieger (Hartland/Arrowhead) (WW) def. Todd Fuller (Osh) 7-5, 6-2
#6 - Halweg (WW) def. Scott Niemi (Osh) 4-6, 6-0, 6-1

Doubles
#1 - Glinert/Caiati (WW) def. Lewison/Kilsdonk (Osh) 8-3
#2 - Ian Hintz (Burlington/Burlington)/Scanlan (WW) def. Balckburn/Price (Osh) 8-3
#3 - Krieger/Logan Covelli (Racine/Washington Park) (WW) def. Adam Kasper/Eric Hoffmann (Osh) 8-2

The four Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference schools have met in La Crosse to compete against one another this weekend.  Competition will continue on Saturday when the Warhawks match-up with UW-La Crosse at 9:00 am and UW-Eau Claire at 1:00 pm.

For additional information, Frank Barnes