GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Junior Moritz Gisy (Duesseldorf, Germany) won at No. 2 singles, but the Purdue University Northwest men's tennis team dropped a Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) match to Davenport University (Mich.) Saturday.

The Panthers (9-4, 3-0 GLIAC) defeated the Pride (6-7, 0-3 GLIAC), 8-1, at the MVP Sportsplex in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Gisy won his match at No. 2 singles against Davenport's Jean Louis Van Antwerpen, 7-5, 7-5.

Davenport started the match 3-0 after winning all three doubles matches. Sophomore Ulf Grosseloh (Maximiliansau, Germany) and freshman Leon Kah (Munich, Germany) won three games at No. 2 doubles, but DU's Matthew McClurg and Jonathan Bulmer pulled off the match, 8-3. 

Grosseloh also fought hard at No. 1 singles winning the first set, 6-4; but dropped the other two sets against Davenport's Marc Lerch in the three-set thriller, 6-3, 10-5.  Junior Diego Pimentel (Guayaquil, Ecuador) won two games in each set but DU's Bulmer took the match, 6-2, 6-2.

Kah picked up three games in the first set at No. 3 singles but DU's McClurg's won the match in straight sets, 6-3, 6-0. Sophomore Mauricio Villacres (Guayaquil, Ecuador) took two games in the first set and one in the second set but Davenport's Remy Johanson, 6-2, 6-1.

PNW returns to action next Saturday, April 7 as the Pride travels to Michigan Tech with match time scheduled for 9 a.m. (CT).