DETROIT -- The men's tennis team advanced to the Horizon League Tournament for the third time in four years in the 2011-12 season making the tournament as the No. 5 seed. The University of Detroit Mercy squad played to a 9-15 dual-match record and 3-4 against conference opponents.

The first round of the tournament saw the No. 5 seed Detroit play No. 4 seed Cleveland State but UDM fell by a narrow 4-3 margin to close out the year. The Titans entered the Horizon League Tournament with wins in four of their last six matches including conference wins over UIC, Valparaiso and Butler.
 
Cesar Escobar Serrano was named to the All-Conference Second Team after leading the team in singles wins in the 2012 dual-match season. He had a 16-7 record, mostly at No. 2 and 3 singles, including a 6-1 record in conference singles play. He closed out the dual-match season with a 16-3 mark in singles. He was named the Horizon League Men's Co-Player of the Week on April 10 after leading the Titans to a 2-0 conference weekend and a pair of wins at No. 2 singles.
 
Serrano now has 47 career singles wins placing him second on the all-time list among Detroit Titans. The leader is Pjotrs Necajevs who stands with 55 in his two-year career.
 
Head Coach Grant Asher scheduled the Titan spring season to include matches against three ranked teams as UDM faced No. 17 Illinois, No. 53 Michigan State and No. 68 DePaul.
 
The 2011-12 squad consisted of 10 players with three seniors, six juniors and one freshman as UDM said goodbye to the first four-year senior class since re-instituting the men's tennis program four years ago. David Stabley and Nick Tolomei were both brought in as by Asher four years ago and both Stabley and Tolomei along with one-year senior David Streeter served as a co-captain this past season. Streeter was at the University of Michigan for two years and earned his bachelor's degree before coming to Detroit to start work on his MBA in the fall and join the Titans.
 
Tolomei wrapped up his career with 29 singles wins and added 28 in doubles while Stabley had 11 singles wins and 30 doubles victories. Tolomei played mostly singles this past year and captured three victories in the No. 2 position. Stabley saw the majority of his time came in doubles with Alex Latosinsky at the No. 2 spot. The duo went 7-9 overall and 3-4 in Horizon League doubles. Streeter helped the Titans in a pair of conference wins earning singles wins over Butler and Valparaiso finishing with seven overall wins this season. 
 
Pablo Nunez capped off 2011-12 with the second best Titan singles mark in conference play going 5-1 and added a 13-7 overall record. He also paired with freshman Jay Joshi at No. 3 doubles and the two went 10-5, the highest win total from any of UDM's doubles partners. Chris Cheung and Mike Basha played at Detroit's No. 1 doubles spot capturing eight wins. Larry Brown captured his second career dual-match singles win with a straight set, 6-0, 6-4 decision in the No. 6 spot over Samuel McKinney of Chicago State on April 13 in a 6-1 team victory.
 
In the fall season at the ITA Midwest Regional in October that was hosted by Ohio State in Columbus, Stabley and Nunez advanced to the round of 16 in the main doubles draw. The Titan combination defeated a team from the Wisconsin Badgers in the round of 64 and another from the Illinois State Redbirds in the round of 32 before succumbing to the No. 1 pair in the bracket from Ohio State. The Buckeye combination of Chase Buchanan and Peter Kobelt were the top ranked doubles pairing at the tournament and three matches after playing the Titans, the two won the main doubles draw championship match.

In the coach's postseason awards, Serrano was named the team MVP, Stabley captured the Coach's Award and the Spirit Award went to Nunez. Latosinsky took home the Hardest Worker Award and Basha was the team's Most Improved.