Men's Tennis: Ohio Northern (4-1 Overall) at Transylvania (Ky.) Pioneer Invite
Saturday-Sunday, Feb. 19-20, 2022 - Top Seed Tennis Center, Nicholasville, Ky.
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This Weekend's Tournament: The Polar Bears will open the spring portion of its 2021-22 schedule this weekend with three matches in the Transylvania (Ky.) Invitational ... On Saturday, Northern will face Greenville (Ill.) at 9 am and Asbury (Ky.) at Noon ... The Polar Bears will wrap up the tournament with a 9 am match with host Transylvania on Sunday morning … Freshman Peyton Specht leads the Polar Bears this season with a 10-3 overall record, going 5-2 in singles and 5-1 at doubles ... Senior Zach Beaschler and freshman Drew Swisher are second with 7-3 marks ... Freshman Sam Sran is a team-best 7-2 in singles play ... Asbury is 2-0 on the season with victories over Georgetown (Ky.) and Bethel (Tenn.) ... Greenville is 5-0 this season and is coming off a 7-2 win at Albion (Mich.) on Feb. 12 ... Transylvania is 1-0 with a 6-3 victory over Otterbein on Feb. 11.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Singles Wins | Doubles Wins | Overall Wins | ||||||||
| 1. | Sran | 7-2 | 1. | Specht | 5-1 | 1. | Specht | 10-3 | ||
| 2. | Specht | 5-2 | 2. | Cochran | 4-1 | 2. | Beaschler | 7-3 | ||
| 3. | Beaschler | 4-1 | 3. | Swisher | 4-2 | 3. | Swisher | 7-3 |
Series Records: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Transylvania by a 2-0 margin ... ONU won 5-1 in the 2011 NCAA Tournament and 8-1 in 2020 ... This will be ONU's first meeting with Asbury and Greenville.
Head Coach Mike Bonnell: Bonnell is in his sixth season as head coach of the Polar Bears with a 54-37 record, a winning percentage of .593 ... He is 240-128 in 18 seasons overall for a .652 winning percentage.