PITTSBURGH, Pa. – The University of Dayton men's tennis finished off the weekend in Pittsburgh with a 6-1 victory over Duquesne on Sunday afternoon. Senior Steven Karl won his 64^th career singles match in the victory, tying Jordan Benjamin and Brad Nykiel for eighth in program history in the win.
 
The Flyers improve to 12-6 and 2-0 in conference play, while Duquesne falls to 6-7 and 1-1 against A-10 opponents.
 
The match opened with Dayton taking the doubles point. Senior Will Harper and junior Connor Bruce took down Alejandro Rodriguez-Vidal and Tamirlan Teberikov 7-5 in the top doubles flight, and sophomore Ronit Hiryur and freshman Eric Perkowski clinched a 1-0 lead in No. 3 doubles, winning 7-5 over Alex Mascioli and Joey Matthews.
 
Dayton continued that momentum into singles play, taking five of six singles flights against the Dukes. Hiryur opened by winning his 16^th match of the season in No. 2 singles over Rodriguez-Vidal in straight sets 6-4, 6-2. Bruce followed him, setting a career high in wins in a season with his 15^th win of the campaign in straight sets over Kaipo Marshall 7-6, 6-1 in the top singles flight to go up 3-0.
 
Duquesne took No. 3 singles before junior Matt DeMarco clinched his second-straight match with a straight-set win over Jin Dassanayake 6-1, 6-2 in No. 4 singles. Perkowski won his second match of the weekend in No. 5 singles, besting Teberikov 6-2, 6-3 and Karl finished the match with his win over Bode Vance 6-1, 6-1 in the sixth singles flight.
 
The Flyers will take next weekend off from competition before returning for a conference battle with Davidson on April 8 at 3 p.m. in Davidson, N.C.