Stevenson, MD – The Mustangs men's tennis team suffered a tough conference loss to rival St. Mary's on Saturday afternoon.

Despite being down 3-5 Ted Cooke and Ben Petasky staged a comeback to take #1 doubles 8-6 and kept the match close going into singles.

Cooke got quick win at #1 singles to tie the match at 2-2 and Shawn Kelley followed suit winning at #5 to put the mustangs up 3-2.

Kelley has continued his solid play, winning for the second day in a row, defeating Kenny Nugent who was a second team CAC performer last year.

Petasky got out to an early lead in #2 singles but could quite fend off a comeback from his opponent and St. Mary's went on to take the rest of the singles to take the match.

The Mustangs have another important conference match on Tuesday at York at 3:30.