LOCKPORT, Ill. - NCAA Division II Lewis University won four of six singles matches and two of three doubles bouts to hand the University of St. Francis men's tennis team its first loss of the young season, 6-3, Tuesday afternoon at Challenge Fitness.

USF and Lewis split the first two doubles matches and then the Flyers broke senior Scott Surges' (Providence Catholic H.S./Joliet, IL) serve to take a 7-6 lead before winning the No. 1 doubles bout over Surges and senior Luis Oliveira (Sao Lourenco, Brazil) at 8-6. 

The Saints needed to win four of the six singles matches to claim an upset win but were only able to secure two wins behind the strong play of junior Jake Quigley (Joliet Catholic Academy/Joliet, IL) and freshman Erick Dobrzynski (Moraine Valley CC/Justice, IL). Quigley won easily at No. 4 singles, taking the first set 6-0 and leading the second one 2-0 before his opponent retired due to injury. Dobrzynski won in three sets over his foe by scores of 6-2, 2-6 and 6-3.

The closest match of the day came at No. 2 singles where USF junior Jakub Szymanski (Bethany College/Poznan, Poland) lost a lengthy three-set match to Lewis' Tonis Irdoja by scores of 6-4, 6-7 (8-10 in the tiebreaker) and 10-4 in a third-set tiebreaker.

The Saints fall to 2-1 and return to action in two weeks when they travel to Elgin to face Judson University on Feb. 23.