LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The New Mexico State men's tennis was edged on Saturday by preseason favorite Grand Canyon, 4-3, at the NMSU Tennis Center.
 
In doubles action, Grand Canyon (11-6, 3-0 WAC) struck first with a 6-2 win at doubles No. 3. The NM State No. 2 doubles pair of Liam Goldberg and Stijn de Haan won their seventh-straight doubles match when they defeated GCU's Mitch Maroscher and Meidy Chazeau 6-4 to tie things up.
 
However, GCU grinded out the win at No. 1 doubles 6-3 to take a 1-0 lead into singles play.
 
Goldberg quickly tied things up for NM State (7-9, 2-1 WAC) with a 6-1, 6-3 win over GCU's Alexander Roggenkamp for his fifth-straight victory. The senior has now won six of his last nine matches in singles play.
 
The 'Lopes regained the lead shortly after when Chazeau downed Mauri Benitez 6-2, 6-4 at the No. 5 position.
 
Like Goldberg, Christofer Goncalves also won his fifth-straight match after sending Felix Schueller home with a 6-3, 6-3 victory at the No. 2 singles slot. The win also gave Goncalves his 18th win of the season, tying Enrique Asmar for the team lead.
 
With the match tied at 2-2, senior Strahinja Trecakov put NM State ahead 3-2 when he got the best of Maroscher in a three-set thriller 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.
 
Tied at 3-3, the match came down to court No. 4 between de Haan and Matheiu Rojaonah where the two battled back-and-forth as de Haan took the first set and Rojaonah taking the second. Heading in the third set, the match continued to swing both ways. With the third set all squared at 4-4, de Haan was bested by Rojaonah 6-4 to give GCU the 4-3 win.
 
This was the first home loss in conference play for New Mexico State since Idaho defeated the Aggies 5-2 on March 29, 2013.
 
NM State will have a couple weeks to prepare for the next conference cluster, April 8-9, hosted by UMKC in Kansas City, Mo.