WISE, Va. – In perhaps their most impressive performance of the season to date, the Newberry College men's tennis team (8-4, 2-2 South Atlantic Conference) swept the UVA Wise Cavaliers (8-3, 0-2 SAC) 7-0 in their Saturday conference matchup.

Junior Mateo Bivol (Bordeaux, France) and sophomore Laurenz Grabia (Altdorf, Germany) claimed an impressive 6-2 victory on court one to start doubles play. After the Wolves fell on court two 5-7, sophomore Tal Cohen (Sydney, Australia) and junior Enzo Blavignat (Bordeaux, France) claimed a tight 6-4 victory on court three, securing the doubles point for the Wolves.

Cohen started out singles play with a two-set victory on court six. He took both sets 6-3. Senior Marcel Schomburg (Bingen, Germany) then won on court two in two sets: 6-3, 7-5. Needing just one more point to secure the match, senior Lawrence Friedland (Cary, N.C.) took a three-set victory to ice the match: 4-6, 6-3,6-2. Bivol was the closest to completing his bout on court one when the match was decided. After taking set one 7-6, with a 7-1 tie breaker, and falling 3-6 in set two, Bivol took a 10-4 super set over his opponent.

Grabia and Blavignat each played just a single super set on courts three and five respectively. They gave up just three games combined as Grabia took the super set 8-1 and Blavignat by a similar score of 8-2.

"Our guys dominated the entire game," said first-year head coach Elias Fernandez of his team. "Outstanding performance from everyone. Let's keep pushing."

With tomorrow's match against Tusculum postponed until April, the Wolves look to keep the momentum rolling as they return to the court on Tuesday, March 21 for a road match against Lander.