WILKES-BARRE, Penn. (April 16, 2023) – The Rutgers University-Camden men's tennis team dropped to 0-10 this year after losing a pair of matches out at King's College here Sunday.
 
The Scarlet Raptors lost to Elizabethtown College, 6-3, and to King's, 8-1.
 
Rutgers-Camden returns to action Friday with a New Jersey Athletic Conference match at Ramapo College.
   
Senior Patrick DeMareo and freshman Thanh Ngo combined for all of the Scarlet Raptors' wins in the third doubles and the fifth and sixth singles.
 
DeMareo earned a win at fifth singles, 6-1, 6-1, and Ngo won by forfeit when Elizabethtown didn't have a sixth singles player. They also won by forfeit at third doubles.
 
At first doubles, juniors Edward McWilliams Jr. and Matthew Tepfer were defeated, 8-4, while freshman Christopher Abacan and senior Hani Qureshi lost at second doubles, 8-2.
 
McWilliams dropped a 6-2, 6-2 decision at first singles, while Abacan lost at second singles, 7-5, 6-1. Qureshi was defeated at third singles, 6-1, 6-1, and Tepfer dropped his match at the fourth flight, 6-1, 6-2.
   
Tepfer provided the Raptors' lone win with a marathon victory at fifth singles, 6-2, 2-6, 10-6.
 
The first doubles team of McWilliams Jr. and DeMareo lost, 8-2. King's posted 8-0 wins at second doubles against Tepfer and Abacan and at third doubles against Qureshi and Ngo.
 
McWilliams lost his match at first singles, 6-2, 6-0, while DeMareo was defeated at second singles, 6-2, 6-1. Abacan lost at third singles (6-1, 6-0), Qureshi lost in the fourth flight (6-1, 6-1) and Ngo dropped his sixth singles match, 6-1, 7-6.