CNU improved to 5-3 for the season, 1-1 on its spring-break trip to the Northeast. The Captains will play their last match of the journey at 11 a.m. Friday against Vassar in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., seeking to avenge an Orlando-area defeat from a year ago.

The Captains swept the doubles matches against Dickinson's Red Devils, with Shulman and Dusty Nelson winning 8-5 at No. 1. Gian Heyer and Garrett Widing scored an 8-2 triumph at 2 in their first match together, and Martin Brown and Lorenzo Sison -- the Captains' No. 2 tandem for much of last season -- played 3 and won 8-0 in their first match together this year.

In singles, Shulman pulled away to beat Ross Anstaett 6-4, 6-0 at the top spot, winning his second love set in two matches on the trip. Shulman is ranked sixth in the South Atlantic Region, and he has beaten No. 7 (Carnegie Mellon's Alex Nemerov) and No. 24 (Anstaett) in a three-day span. Eight of the region's players eventually will qualify for the NCAA Division III singles tournament.

Also winning in singles were Heyer at No. 2, Brown at 4 and senior co-captain Dylan Young at 5. It was the Captains' first dual match against Dickinson since Young's freshman year, when he won a third-set tiebreaker at the fourth position to give the Captains a 5-4 home win in 2007.

CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT 7, DICKINSON 2

Doubles
1. Dusty Nelson-Eric Shulman (CNU) d. Ross Anstaett-Hunter Holbrook 8-5.
2. Gian Heyer-Garrett Widing (CNU) d. Will Golinkin-Pavel Hejsek 8-2.
3. Martin Brown-Lorenzo Sison (CNU) d. Andrew Kastner-Matt Wood 8-0.

Singles
1. Shulman (CNU) d. Anstaett 6-4, 6-0.
2. Heyer (CNU) d. Holbrook 6-3, 6-1.
3. Golinkin (DC) d. Sison 6-4, 7-5.
4. Brown (CNU) d. Hejsek 6-1, 4-6, 1-0 (11-9).
5. Dylan Young (CNU) d. Wood 6-4, 7-6 (7-1).
6. Christian Muller-Wolf (DC) d. Kyle Tobin 6-3, 0-6, 1-0 (10-8).

Records
CNU 5-3, Dickinson 2-2.