Oral Roberts University returned to Southland Conference play and suffered a 6-1 defeat to Lamar on Saturday afternoon at LaFortune Park. The loss ends ORU's three-match winning streak.

ORU (4-10, 0-4 SLC) earned their only point of the day at No. 4 singles, where Parker Allen was a 6-1, 6-2 winner over Mikko Rajamaki. The Golden Eagles also got a win at No. 3 doubles, where Fabian Zierleyn and reigning SLC Player of the Week Michael Sosnowski drilled Carl-Phillip Lindqvist and Steven McMullan, 8-2.

But Lamar (12-8, 1-0 SLC) won seven matches, including the top two doubles courts. Michael Feucht and Juuso Laitinen beat ORU's Jack Busby and Jason Mechali, 8-6, on the top court, while Rajamaki and Nikita Lis won the second flight, 8-1, over Allen and Amar Saletovic.

On the top singles court, Lis won a battle over Zierleyn, 6-2, 6-7, 6-3. Laitinen took down Saletovic in the second flight, 6-1, 6-0, and Lindqvist captured the third match, 4-6, 7-6, 10-8 over Busby.

In the fifth singles flight, McMullan won out over Sosnowski, 6-4, 6-4. The sixth and final flight went to Jeandre Hoogenboezem, 6-3, 6-1, over Cole Guy.

ORU is back in action on Friday, April 4, when they host both Arkansas Pine-Bluff and Oklahoma Baptist at LaFortune Park.