WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – Senior Alex Beattie (Williamsport, Pa./Williamsport Area) and sophomore Jason Mifsud (Montoursville, Pa./Montoursville) each advanced to their singles flight finals to highlight the Lycoming College men’s tennis team’s run at the Middle Atlantic Conference Individual Championships, which wrapped up Sunday at the Ralston Field Complex at Kirby Park.

In a tense battle, Beattie beat Wilkes’ Evan Katz in a tight superset tiebreaker, 6-7, 6-4, 15-13, to reach the finals at the second flight of singles for the second year in a row, but he fell to Manhattenville’s Michael Capozzi in the championship, 6-4, 6-1.

Mifsud also reached the finals after beating Manhattenville’s Andres Rivera, 6-4, 6-3 in the semis, but he was edged out in a superset tiebreaker by Eastern’s Jordan Gates, 6-2, 4-6, 10-6, in the championship.

The No. 2 doubles pairing of senior Robert and sophomore David Brown (Montoursville, Pa./Montoursville) also reached the finals, thanks to an 8-6 win over Elizabethtown’s Eric Fritzges and Dylan Haefner in the semifinals, but the pair fell in the finals to Wilkes’ Wes McCollum and Clarke Freeman, 8-6.

David Brown was edged out by Manhattenville’s Jose Gabriel Pinto, 6-3, 7-5, in the fourth flight of singles.

Senior Phillip Shannon (Cogan Station, Pa./Williamsport Area) fell to Manhattenville’s Karim Mahmoud in the semifinals of the fifth flight, 6-3, 7-5.

Sophomore Cody Heffner (Muncy, Pa./Penn College) also dropped his semifinals match at No. 6 to Wilkes’ Alex Makos, 6-3, 6-4, falling to the eventual champion.

The No. 3 doubles set of Shannon and Heffner were edged out in the semifinals by the eventual champions, Manhattenville’s Karim Mahmoud and Gabriel Pinto, 9-7.

The Warriors will open the spring portion of their season on March 20, 2011 with a trip to Marywood.