With the Atlantic 10 conference tournament looming, the women’s tennis team finished its season at Saint Louis last weekend.

The Bulldogs lost to their conference opponent 7-0.

The team will begin conference tournament play today in Charlottesville, Va.

The men’s tennis team was also at Saint Louis last weekend for its final conference match of the season.

The Bulldogs came away with a 5-2 victory.

Sophomores Austin Woldmoe, Pulok Bhattacharya, Billy Weldon and Ruben Geeraert all picked up singles wins.

Butler will take on Cleveland State this weekend in its final regular season match.

The Butler men’s tennis team continued its losing skid with a 7-0 home loss to No. 66 Harvard on Sunday.

“I just think we are playing a couple tough schools early this season,” freshman Ruben Geeraert said.

Freshman Austin Woldmoe had the team’s best singles showing against the Crimson (5-1), losing to senior Jonathan Pearlman 6-4, 6-3.

“Harvard is one of the best ranked teams to come here, so we were just trying to get experience with the new freshmen,” sophomore Brad DiCarlo said. “To improve we just need to work on our consistency, toughness and serves.”

The Bulldogs (0-5) also suffered two losses Saturday in West Lafayette, falling 7-0 to No. 67 Purdue (3-2) and 5-2 against Southern Illinois.

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Against the Salukis (1-1), Butler received victories from freshman Pulok Bhattacharya at No. 5 singles (4-6, 6-4, 6-0) and freshman Sam O’Neill at No. 6 singles (6-1, 7-6 (7-5)).

The team will continue its season at Eastern Kentucky on Saturday at 1 p.m.

The Butler men’s tennis team gained more experience and picked up some victories at the Ball State Invitational last weekend.

Freshmen Sam O’Neill, Tommy Marx and Ruben Geeraert each earned two victories for the Bulldogs.

O’Neill had the strongest showing of the trio, winning the White Division consolation bracket.

After two byes, he met Duquesne freshman Mehdi Mekaoui and defeated him 6-4, 6-0.

The bracket’s final match featured O’Neill and Geeraert, who was victorious in matches against Duquesne junior Matt Smith (6-1, 6-1) and Northern Illinois freshman Bryant Wei (6-1, 4-6, 1-0 (6)).

After trading 6-2 wins in the first two sets, O’Neill topped Geeraert 1-0 (9) to capture his second victory of the event.

Marx picked up two wins in the Flight A consolation bracket before losing to Green Bay freshman Michael Tenzer 6-3, 6-2.

The Bulldogs will head to Louisville, Ky., for the Louisville Invitational Oct. 14-16.