HOUGHTON, Mich. -- Grand Valley State swept Michigan Tech in its final home men's tennis match of the 2006-07 season today at the Gates Tennis Center. The Lakers (15-5, 6-1 GLIAC) defeated the Huskies (7-14, 2-4 GLIAC) by a 9-0 count.

"You need to get off to a good start to beat a good team and we didn't do that," said head coach Mike Axford. "We were playing from behind right away, then being down 3-0 hurt us mentally in our singles matches."

Tech fell behind 5-2 in all three doubles flights. Brett Girard and Chris Calder worked back into their match but lost to GVSU's top pair of Adam Sandusky and Tony Dang by an 8-6 score.

In singles, senior Rick Halverson was the lone Husky to win a set. Tech's number two took the first set, 6-4, but lost the second and a third-set tiebreaker for a final score of 4-6, 6-1, 1-0 (10-6).

Chris Calder forced a second set tiebreaker in his hard-hitting number five singles match. He was defeated, 6-2, 7-6 (3).

Michigan Tech will make up the match that was canceled last week by playing at Northwood on Friday (Apr. 20). The Huskies will then remain in Midland through the weekend to play in the GLIAC Tournament.