Men's Tennis wins its third consecutive OAC Regular Season title with 9-0 victories over Mount Union and Capital on busy Saturday

LIMA/ASHLAND — The Ohio Northern men's tennis team won its third consecutive Ohio Athletic Conference regular season title with a 9-0 victory over Mount Union in Lima and a 9-0 win over Capital in Ashland on Saturday.

The Basics

• Records: Ohio Northern (17-5 Overall, 6-0 OAC), Mount Union (11-5 Overall, 2-4 OAC), Capital (2-16 Overall, 1-5 OAC)
• Venue: Westwood Tennis Center - Lima, Ohio / Brookside Park - Ashland, Ohio.

Mount Union Match - W, 9-0

• The Polar Bears celebrated Senior Day and clinched a share of the OAC regular season title with the 9-0 win.
• Junior Peyton Specht (Munster, Ind.) and freshman Tyler Wood (Toledo/St. John's) won 8-3 at No. 1 doubles.
• Senior Drew Swisher (Findlay) and freshman Kessler Hackenberger (Tipp City/Tippecanoe) won 8-3 at No. 2 doubles.
• Senior Kavya Desai (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and senior Isaac Spar (Ada) won 8-2 at No. 3 doubles.
• Specht won 7-6(3), 6-0 at No. 1 singles.
• Junior T.J. Schultz (Grand Blanc, Mich.) won 4-6, 6-3, 10-5 at No. 2 singles.
• Wood won 6-0, 6-2 at No. 3 singles.
• Hackenberger posted a 6-0, 6-2 win at No. 4 singles.
• Desai won 6-1, 6-0 at No. 5 singles.
• Swisher won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 6 singles.

Capital Match - W, 9-0

• The Polar Bears won the OAC regular season title outright with the 9-0 win.
• CU forfeited the Nos. 3 doubles and 6 singles courts as they only had five healthy players.
• Specht and Wood won 8-3 at No. 1 doubles.
• Sophomore Aaron Davis (Tipp City/Tippecanoe) and Spar won 8-3 at No. 2 doubles.
• Specht won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 1 singles.
• Schultz won 6-0, 6-1 at No. 2 singles.
• Hackenberger won 6-3, 6-0 at No. 3 singles.
• Sophomore Nico Rogel (Alicante, Spain/Hoosac) won 6-0, 6-1 at No. 4 singles.
• Freshman Kosuke Asada (Findlay) won  6-1, 6-1 at No. 5 singles.

Notables

• The Polar Bears won their third consecutive OAC Regular Season title and its 12th overall.
• Northern will be the No. 1 seed in next week's OAC Tournament.
• ONU is now 30-10 all-time against Mount Union, including a 16-4 margin at home.
• Ohio Northern is now 40-19 all-time against Capital and is 3-0 in neutral site matches.
• Hackenberger (17-2) and Wood (17-6) lead the team in singles victories this season.
• Specht a team-best 22-5 doubles record and Hackenberger is a team-best 37-7 overall.
• Second-year head coach Sean Swisher is now 27-13 at the helm of the ONU men's tennis team, a winning percentage of .675.

Up Next

• The Polar Bears will return to action on Friday afternoon at approximately 3 pm when they host a semifinal match at the West Campus Courts.