BALTIMORE - Howard men's tennis fell to Morgan State, 4-1, on Saturday. The Bison escaped a shutout. In the doubles, Cole Gittens and Sagar Raju tied the Bears' Oguzhan and Nihit Rawal, 6-6.

Roger Lyn and Karim Shokeir lost the first doubles, 6-4. The Bison met defeat in the No. 3 doubles with Devaughn Blackburn and Kyle Martin taking a 6-3 loss against Serhii Kharchev and Arjun Ramakrishnan.

The first singles set went to a tiebreaker with Lyn and Kharchev. Lyn was narrowly defeated, 3-2 in the third bout.

In the No. 2 singles, Gittens lost to Rawal, 6-4, 6-3.

Shokeir fell to Ceylan in the No. 3 singles.

Singles No. 4 was unfinished between Kyle martin and Sebastian Lopez.

Blackburn and Gupta split the fifth set and in the No. 5 singles Raju won by default.

The Bears improved to 9-6 overall and 1-0 with their first conference win of the season.

The Bison now stand at 1-11 overall and 1-2 in the conference.

Howard will host their final regular season game at home on April 14 at 1 p.m. against the Richmond Spiders.

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