WILKES-BARRE, Penn. (April 7, 2024) – The Rutgers University-Camden men's tennis team played a pair of matches here Sunday as it lost to Elizabethtown College, 9-0, and to King's College of Pennsylvania, 8-1.
 
The losses dropped the Scarlet Raptors to 0-6.
 
The only Raptor win on the day came from its third doubles team in the match against King's College, as junior Matthew Tepfer and senior Tyrone King Jr. combined for an 8-6 victory.
 
The Scarlet Raptors return to action April 19 when they host SUNY-Oneonta in a Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference East Division match at 4 p.m.
   
The Raptors lost 8-2 decisions at first doubles (senior Edward McWilliams Jr. and freshman John Brady) and at second doubles (sophomores Thanh Ngo and Christopher Abacan). Tepfer and King were defeated at third doubles, 8-3.
 
McWilliams lost at first singles, 2-1 (retired), Ngo was defeated at second singles (6-2, 6-2) and Abacan lost at third singles (6-1, 6-1). Brady lost at the fourth flight, 6-2, 6-2, while both Tepfer and King lost at fifth and sixth singles, respectively, by 6-0, 6-0 scores.
   
Tepfer and King won their match at third doubles, but that was all the Scarlet Raptors managed to capture. They lost at both first doubles (McWilliams and Brady) and second doubles (Abacan and Ngo) by 8-0 scores.
 
McWilliams and Abacan played in the first and second singles spots, respectively, and lost by scores of 6-0, 6-1. Ngo lost 6-0, 6-0 at third singles and Brady was defeated, 6-1, 6-1, at the fourth flight. Tepfer dropped a 6-0, 6-0 match at fifth singles and King was defeated at sixth singles, 6-1, 6-1.