The Marquette men’s tennis team competed without its seniors this weekend but still saw two freshman take singles titles at the 2009 Purdue Invitational.

Freshman Jacob Straus didn’t drop a set as he won the Flight B title by beating Brandon Bayliss of Butler, 6-3, 6-2. Straus beat Butler’s Zach Ervin, 6-1, 6-0 in the quarterfinals, then took down Purdue’s Matt Manasse, 7-6, 6-3 in the semifinals. Straus leads the team with 11 wins.

Another freshman, Jose Carlos Gutierrez Crowley took the consolation championship in Flight A after dropping his first match. Gutierrez Crowley also beat a Butler Bulldog, this time Chris Herron, 7-5, 7-6 in the championship match.

The doubles team of freshman Otavio Perim and sophomore Jonathan Schwerin bowed out in the semifinals losing 9-8 after a tightly contested match.

Senior Dusan Medan lost to Dimitar Kutrovsky of Texas, the No. 6-ranked player in the country, to end his run at the D’Novo/ITA All-American tournament Saturday. It was his ninth match in eight days.