The Malone University men's tennis team captured its first victory of the 2011-12 season with a 5-4 win over St. John Fisher (NY) College on Wednesday during the team's spring break trip to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.  With the victory, Malone improved to 1-9 overall while St. John Fisher fell to 1-6 on the year.

Each of the Pioneers' victories came in straight sets as the top of the Malone singles order, #1 Nate Davis, #2 Alex Steinmetz and #3 Joss Celuch, all pocketed wins while the #1 doubles team of Davis and Celuch along with the #2 doubles unit of Steinmetz and Brett Krejci earned victories.

Scores for the match were as follows:

Singles:

     Malone                            SJF                                   Winner                   Score
1. Nate Davis                     John Whelehan               Malone                  6-3, 6-0
2. Alex Steinmetz               Greg Duffy                         Malone                  6-3, 6-3
3. Joss Celuch                  Joseph Aquino                 Malone                  7-6, 6-3
4. Brett Krejci                     Daniel Parshall                 SJF                        6-2, 6-4
5. Andrew Rearick            Sheldon Mitchell               SJF                        6-3, 6-1
6. Michael Berry                Chris Maley                        SJF                        retired

Doubles:

      Malone                            SJF                                            Winner               Score
1. Davis/Celuch                   Whelehan/Duffy                      Malone               8-4
2. Steinmetz/Krejci              Parshall/Mitchell                     Malone               8-2
3. Rearick/Berry                   Tom Quinzi/Pat McGrath       SJF                      8-4

Malone will be back in action on Thursday when the squad closes out its Hilton Head trip with a match against Trine (IN) University in an 8:00 a.m. contest.