GRANTHAM, Pa. – Senior Chris Hileman (Sinking Spring, Pa./Wilson) tied the school record for career singles victories and Lebanon Valley rolled to a 5-2 win at Messiah College in Commonwealth Conference men's tennis action on Tuesday.

With the win, LVC's 10th in its last 11 matches, the Valley can clinch the Commonwealth Conference regular season championship for the second year in a row with a victory over Widener University on Thursday.

Messiah (0-8, 0-4 CC) won the doubles point but Lebanon Valley (11-4, 5-1 CC) came back to win at first through fifth singles.

Hileman, who already owns LVC career records for overall wins (123) and doubles wins (54), will break Josh Shellenberger's '99 career singles record of 69 with his next win after prevailing at No. 1 singles against Messiah. He is 11-3 on the season.

Senior Ryan Arnold (Lebanon, Pa./Cedar Crest) and junior Andy Platt (York, Pa./York Suburban) teamed up at second doubles for the Flying Dutchmen's lone doubles victory. Arnold and Platt are now 6-1 this year.

Picking up wins at second through fifth singles, respectively, were Arnold, sophomore Ryan Wendell (Shiloh, N.J./Cumberland Regional), senior Brock Hoover (Myerstown, Pa./ELCO) and junior Chris Keeney (Leola, Pa./Conestoga Valley).

Wendell bumped his 2003 record to 11-4 while Hoover improved to 9-1. Keeney stayed undefeated at 9-0.

Lebanon Valley plays the second of three matches in a three-day span when it visits Dickinson College in a non-conference affair on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.

[Photo - Junior Chris Keeney, who improved to 9-0 with his singles victory against Messiah on Tuesday]

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