NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. – The Niagara Purple Eagles topped the Robert Morris Colonials, 5-2, on Saturday at SportsPlex.

Niagara won its four straight match on the 2012-13 season for its first 4-0 start since the 2005-06 season. 

Niagara took the doubles point, thanks to wins in the No. 2 and 3 doubles. Lorenz Schwojer and Mathieu Lacasse improved to 3-1 on the season with an 8-4 win in No. 2 doubles, while Michael Elortegui and Joseph Smithyman defeated Fernando Leite and Juan Andres Hirmas, 8-4, to improve to 2-0.

The Purple Eagles won one through four in singles.  David Raymond outlasted Angus Thomson in three sets, 6-1, 4-6, 6-1, in No. 1 singles for his second straight win of the spring season. Elortegui picked up his first dual match win with a straight win victory over Jose Limon, 6-4, 6-3, in two singles.  Olivier Dufour-Coursol won his third consecutive match in No. 3 singles and Schwojer cruised past Tarun Kishan, 6-4, 6-1 for his seventh straight win and 14th of his last 15 singles matches.

Niagara has two matches coming up this week beginning with Mercyhurst on Feb. 8 at SportsPlex and traveling to play Duquesne on Feb. 10.

Niagara University 5, Robert Morris 2

Singles competition
1. Raymond, David (NIA) def. THOMSON, Angus (RMU) 6-1, 4-6, 6-1
2. Elortegui, Michael (NIA) def. LIMON, Jose (RMU) 6-4, 6-3
3. Dufour-Coursol, O. (NIA) def. FERRERIC, M. (RMU) 7-5, 6-0
4. Schwojer, Lorenz (NIA) def. KISHAN, Tarun (RMU) 6-4, 6-1
5. COIRO, Andre (RMU) def. Lacasse, Mathieu (NIA) 3-6, 6-2, 10-7
6. HIRMAS, Juan Andres (RMU) def. Smithyman, Joseph (NIA) 6-4, 6-0

Doubles competition
1. THOMSON, Angus/KISHAN, Tarun (RMU) def. Dufour-Coursol, O./Raymond, David (NIA) 8-5
2. Schwojer, Lorenz/Lacasse, Mathieu (NIA) def. LIMON, Jose/FERRERIC, M. (RMU) 8-4
3. Elortegui, Michael/Smithyman, Joseph (NIA) def. LEITE, Fernando/HIRMAS, Juan Andres (RMU) 8-4