DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Fifth-ranked Lynn won all three doubles matches on the way to a 6-3 victory over a short-handed Embry-Riddle men's tennis team on Saturday. The win improved the NCAA Division II No. 5 Fighting Knights to 5-2 on the year, while the NAIA third-ranked Eagles, playing without their first and third doubles teams and their No. 3 singles player, fell to 6-3 overall.

Benji Kendall and George Laffey registered the first point for the Fighting Knights with an 8-4 win over Patrick Besch and David Spennare at the third doubles position. Willi Wolfer and Luca Pavanelli made it 2-0 with an 8-5 decision against Adrian Bayh and Simon Felix at No. 2. At No. 1 doubles, Chris Freeman and Peter Francis, playing just their second match at the top spot, went ahead 4-1 but they were unable to sustain the advantage as Alessandro Sarra and Vlad Cirla came back to take the match 8-6.

Felix was the first to finish his match in a move up to No. 4 singles and walked away with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Pavanelli. Francis, who moved up to the No. 3 spot due to an injury to the Eagles' regular No. 3 Jan Hoekzema, followed with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Sarra. At the No. 2 spot, Cirla topped Besch in the first set and held off the Embry-Riddle freshman 7-6 (8-6) in the second to increase the Fighting Knight advantage to 4-2.

The match at No. 5 singles saw Spennare take the first set 6-2 against Voirin. The ERAU sophomore went up 5-4 and was serving for the match but Voirin battled back to win the set 7-5 and took the match with a 6-2 decision in the third to score the clincher.

Embry-Riddle's third win of the day came at sixth singles position where, Bayh, playing his first singles match since sustaining an injury in the summer, bested Kendall in three sets 4-6, 6-1, 10-8.

The Eagles will be back in action at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday when they host Eastern Kentucky at the Crotty Tennis Complex.