Junior Keziel Juneau improved his team-best singles win total to 14 with a victory at the No. 1 slot against the Terrapins.

College Park, Md. (2/13/09) - The William and Mary men's tennis team dropped a 4-3 decision at ACC foe and No. 73-ranked Maryland on Friday night. The Terrapins won the doubles point, and the No. 59-ranked Tribe could only muster a singles split with victories at the No. 1, No. 4 and No. 6 singles slots. The Tribe fell to 9-5 overall, while Maryland improved to 3-2 on the year. 

Senior Dominic Pagon won his third straight match and improved to 11-6 on the year. The Kingston, Jamaica native easly rolled past Mathias Sarrazon, 6-1, 6-0, at the No. 4 position. It marked Pagon's seventh singles win in his last eight matches.

At the No. 1 singles position, junior Keziel Juneau continue his impressive play, defeating Andy Orban, 6-4, 7-6 (4). Juneau upped his season ledger to a team-best 14-7 overall, including a 10-4 mark at the top singles slot.

Freshman Ilja Orre rounded out the Tribe victories with a three-set win at the No. 6 single slot. The Green and Gold rookie took the first set from Roshan Potarazu, 6-3, before his Maryland opponent countered with a tiebreaker win, 7-6 (5), in the second set. Orre notched his seven singles triumph of the season with a 10-6 third-set super tiebreaker victory.

The Tribe will return to action on Saturday, Feb. 14, when it meets Big Ten foe Purdue in College Park, Md., at 1 p.m. Last season, W&M tallied a 4-3 victory over the Boilermakers in Boston, Mass. Purdue is 2-3 on the season following a 5-2 loss to No. 47 Arkansas in West Lafayette, Ind., on Feb. 8.

#73 Maryland 4, #59 William and Mary 3
Singles
No. 1 - Keziel Juneau (W&M) def. Andy Orban (Maryland) - 6-4, 7-6 (4)
No. 2 - David Kwon (Maryland) def. Marwan Ramadan (W&M) - 6-3, 7-5
No. 3 - Nickolai Nielson (Maryland) def. Sebastien Vidal (W&M) - 6-1, 6-2
No. 4 - Dominic Pagon (W&M) def. Mathias Sarrazon (Maryland) - 6-1, 6-0
No. 5 - Boris Fetbroyt (Maryland) def. Richard Wardell (W&M) - 6-4, 6-4
No. 6 - Ilja Orre (W&M) def. Roshan Potarazu (Maryland) - 6-3, 6-7(5),10-6
Order finish 4, 3, 5, 2*, 1, 6

Doubles
No. 1 - #37 Orban/Fetbroyt (Maryland) def. #52 Juneau/Vidal (W&M) - 8-2
No. 2 - Nielson/Kwon (Maryland) def. Pagon/Orre (W&M) - 8-7 (5)
No. 3 - Aksanov/Sarrazin (Maryland) def. Pandit/Ramadan (W&M) - 8-3
Order of finish 1, 3*, 2