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Lake Forest, IL – The Prairie Fire traveled to Lake Forest College in search of its first conference win of the season in two tries.  Knox remains without a victory in league play after falling 8-1 on April 12.

Knox (4-11, 0-2 MWC South) took the Foresters to three sets in the #5 and #6 singles matches and earned a victory in the #3 doubles match.

The Prairie Fire’s #3 doubles team of first-year Jonathan Ng (Hong Kong, China) and junior David Ham (Lakewood, WA, Shadow Ridge) defeated Lake Forest College’s Kevin Lasky and Tommy White 8-4.

The Foresters won the #1 doubles match 8-2 and defeated Knox in #2 doubles 8-3.

Lake Forest allowed 10 points combined in the #1 through #4 singles matches.  

Junior Shaun Mulani (Bourbonnais, IL, Bradley-Bourbannais) made his #5 singles opponent, Anthony Mykhaylovsky, work hard for the #5 singles victory.  Mulani won the first set 6-2 before dropping the next two 6-3 and 10-5.

Ham also took Cantor to three sets in the #6 singles match.  Like Mulani, Ham won the first set (6-4).  Cantor came back to win the match by taking the second set 6-4 and the third 10-8.

Lake Forest (7-8, 2-2 MWC South) failed to qualify for the Midwest Conference Team Championships later this month in Madison, Wisconsin. 

Defending champion Grinnell College (21-5, 3-0) and Monmouth College (12-9, 3-0 MWC South) - who has won seven straight matches – will represent the MWC South Division.  Both losses by Lake Forest in conference play were against Grinnell (7-2) and Monmouth (6-3).  The Foresters wrapped up third place in the division with the victory against Knox (4-11, 0-2 MWC South).

View the Midwest Conference men's tennis standings HERE.

Grinnell and Monmouth will play for the division championship on April 21 in Grinnell, Iowa.

The Prairie Fire has one more chance to earn a conference win when Illinois College visits the Merdian Tennis Courts in the regular season finale for Knox on April 21 at 10:00 a.m.  The Blueboys (1-9, 0-3 MWC South) have dropped six straight matches.

Both Knox and IC will join the rest of their south division counterparts in Madison on April 28 and 29 for the Midwest Conference doubles and singles championships.

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