Bethlehem, Pa.- The Colgate University men's tennis team won the ECAC Men's South Open Tennis Championship with a team score of 20 points, edging last year's champion Lehigh but three points.

TEAM TOTALS
1. Colate 20
2. Lehigh 17
3. Loyola 8.5
4. Moravian 5.5
5. Cabrini 5
 
Lehigh placed players in the finals in all five contested flights in the five-team event that was shortened to just one day, but the Mountain Hawks dropped four finals matches to players from Colgate.

The Raiders were declared champions in three of the four singles flights and in the doubles flight, as were runners-up in the other singles flight.
 
The championship took place at the Lewis Tennis Center on the campus of Lehigh with five teams competing in the event.  Loyola came in third with 8.5 points, Moravian in fourth with 5.5 points and Cabrini in fifth with 5 points.
 
Colgate's senior Chris Innes defeated Cabrini's Matt Ingram with matching 6-0 sets in the first round of the first flight.  After losing the first set, 7-5, Innes came back to take Lehigh's Alfredo Fernandez-Concha in championship match, winning the next two sets, 6-4.

Lehigh's senior co-captain Ryan Lloyd won the second singles title.  He opened play with a straight set win over Matt McDaniel of Loyola before outlasting Martin McIntyre of Colgate in three sets, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 in the finals.
 
Senior Marshall Wheeler  defeated Moravian's Keith Feinman, 6-1, 6-0 in the opening round of the 3rd singles, 6-1, 6-0 to advance to the championship match.  Wheeler tasted victory as he edged Lehigh's Andrew Balshi 7-5, 6-1.
 
In doubles, Colgate's freshman Michael Yasskey  and junior Tyler Deck  catapulted to the championship match after defeated Loyola's Chad Morrow and Donnie Marinari, 6-2, 6-1.  Facing Lehigh's Evan Volkman and Jon-Michael Caminit, Colgate came out of top, 6-2, 6-2.
 
The win was the first tournament win for Colgate under first-year head coach Bobby Pennington.