MERION STATION, Pa. – Three Hawks reached the semifinals of their respective singles flights on Saturday as the Saint Joseph's men's tennis team continued play at the eighth annual SJU Invitational at the SJU Tennis Complex.

Sophomores Andre Fick and Tim Stierle will meet in the Flight 1 semifinals on Sunday morning.  Fick reached the quarterfinals after a withdrawal and then dispatched Felipe Fuentes of Niagara, 6-2, 6-4.  Stierle won his opening match, 5-7, 7-6 (7), (10-3), over Drexel's Sinan Orhon, before punching his ticket to the semifinals via a 3-6, 6-4, (12-10) win over Bucknell's Dan Wright.

Senior Kyle Chalmers won his opening match in the top flight; he won the first set, 6-1, before Loyola's Reid Burch retired.  Chalmers was defeated in the quarterfinals, however, 6-3, 2-6, (10-6), by Drexel's Balaji Lakshmanan.  Senior Tristan Boustany also fell in the quarters, going down to Villanova's Tyler Roth, 7-6 (5), 6-2.

In flight number two, freshman Beekman Schaeffer topped Delaware's Roy Cheng, 6-1, 6-4, before falling in the quarters to Stefan Suarez of Villanova, 4-6, 6-2, (10-7).  Junior Peter Dewitt also dropped a quarterfinal match, falling to Lehigh's Jack Martin-Dyer, 4-6, 6-2, (10-2).

Senior Valentijn van Erven dropped his opening round match in the second flight, 6-4, 6-3, to Colin Nardella of Lehigh, before falling to Niagara's Francis Nadeau, 7-6 (4), 6-3, in the consolation draw.  Sophomore Michael Santa Lucia went down to defeat in the opening round as well, retiring during the first set against Drexel's Youssef Lahlou.

Sophomore Dan Tan played his way into the semifinals of the third flight, cruising past Kyle Gower of Loyola, 6-0, 6-1, in the opening round and Alastair Hurry of Villanova, 6-1, 6-1, in the quarterfinals.

Freshman Luis Janko lost his opening round match, 7-6 (2), 6-1, to Delaware's Luis Marcano.  He then won a pair of consolation matches to reach the semifinals in that draw, topping Lafayette's Chris Kim, 6-4, 6-2, and Loyola's Brett Shriver, 6-1, 6-3.

Junior Nick Ringle earned a 6-2, 7-5 win over Noah Schott of Lafayette in the fourth singles flight before falling in the quarterfinals to Lehigh's Graham Lehman, 3-6, 6-4, (10-5).

Junior Alexander Schneider was a first-round winner as well, topping Loyola's John Ferruzzi, 7-6 (6), 6-2, but his run was stopped in the quarters by Drexel's Daniil Ginzburg, 6-3, 6-4.

Freshman Scott Battaglia moved into the fourth-flight quarterfinals via default, where he fell to Villanova's William Elmore, 6-4, 6-0.

Play concludes on Sunday with the semifinals and finals in both the main draws and the consolations.