WARSAW, Ind. — The Earlham College made some history on Saturday as the Quakers defeated Manchester College 9-0 at the Warsaw Racquet Club.

With the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference win, Earlham now has 12 straight victories, which is a new school record in the NCAA era.

"It's a great accomplishment, but we hope to extend it through the rest of the year," Earlham Head Coach Adam Van Zee said. "We still have many goals left to accomplish."

The old mark of 11 was estalished at the end of 2001-02 and the start of 2002-03.

The Quakers are now 15-1 overall and they lead the conference at 7-0.

Dominating play in the doubles competition, the Quakers swept the Spartans (2-9, 0-4).

Hank Levin (Dallas, TX, Highland Park) and Anton Bartashevich (Moscow, Russia, International) beat Piero Ridoutt and Phillip Truitt 8-1 at No. 1.

Andrey Gavrilov (Yaroslavl, Russia, Universal) and Brad Maisey (Mount Maunganui, New Zealand, Tauranga Boys) teamed up to blank Ramiro Arguijo and Bobby Swaby 8-0 at No. 2.

Nabil Parkar (London, England, International) and Scott Lawrence (Letchworth, England, Cheam) picked up an 8-2 win over Mitchell Mellott and Alex Winger at No. 3.

In singles action, Levin defeated Ridoutt 6-0, 1-0 (retired) at No. 1, while Bartashevich took care of Truitt 6-1, 6-1 at No. 2.

Like Levin, Gavrilov also won with a retirement over Arguijo 6-3, 1-0 at No. 3. Maisey posted a 6-1, 6-0 win over Swaby at No. 4.

At No. 5, Lawrence defeated Mellott 6-1, 6-0. David Bluestein (Durham, NH, Buxton School) got by Winger 6-0, 6-1 at No. 6.

Earlham returns to action next Saturday at Anderson University. The HCAC match begins at 10 a.m. The conference contest at home with Transylvania University was moved to Wednesday, April 25 at 4 p.m.

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