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CINCINNATI – Eastern Illinois men's tennis wrapped up a busy weekend on Saturday afternoon as the Panthers lost 7-0 at Big East member Xavier.
 
The Panthers challenged in every set opening the match with a series of 6-4 losses at all three doubles positions.
 
In singles play, EIU shuffled its line-up with several players sliding up in the line-up after action at Dayton and Northern Kentucky on Friday.
 
Christos Kyrillou played at No. 3 singles losing in a tiebreak in the first set before dropping a close second set.  Matthew Graft beat Kyrillou 7-6 (6-4), 6-4.
 
Cameron Slabbert battled at No. 6 singles for the Panthers facing Jan Vrba.  Slabbert lost the opening set 6-2 before being edged in the second set 7-5.
 
EIU fell to 2-6 on the season while Xavier moved to 2-3.