LAFAYETTE, La. — Freshman Santiago Perez scored the only team point Wednesday for Xavier University of Louisiana in 4-1 and 4-0 men's tennis losses to NCAA Division I Louisiana-Lafayette.
     The XULA men (6-4), ranked eighth in the NAIA, had won six of their previous seven dual matches, including the last three.
     In the opener, Perez rallied to defeat Jan Galka 4-6, 6-0, 6-4 on the first singles court. Gabriel Niculescu, Pierre Andrieu and Chris Anders also won first sets, but Niculescu and Andrieu both lost in three. Anders's match was in the third set when Jamie Fraser clinched for the Ragin' Cajuns with a 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 decision against Andrieu on the fifth court.
     The Cajuns are 18-5.
     XULA's men and will women will travel to the Midwest to play indoors at Northwestern Ohio at noon EDT Friday and at Indiana Wesleyan at 10:30 a.m. EDT Saturday.