Men’s Tennis (20-4 Overall) at OAC Tournament Semifinals/Finals

Friday-Saturday, May 6-7, 2022, 4:30 p.m./2 p.m. - Lindner Family Tennis Center, Mason, Ohio

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This Weekend's Tournament: The Polar Bears are the No. 1 seed in this weekend's Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament semifinals and finals … ONU will face No. 5 seed Baldwin Wallace in one semifinal match with No. 2 seed John Carroll facing No. 3 seed Otterbein in the other semifinal … The men's semifinals are scheduled for 4:30 p.m. on Friday at the Lindner Family Tennis Center with the finals beginning at 2 p.m. on Saturday … If Friday's matches need to be moved indoors due to rain, the ONU-BWU match will begin at 4 p.m. at the Queen City Racquet Club in Cincinnati and the OU-JCU match will begin at 4 p.m. at South Regency Tennis Center in Miamisburg … Saturday's indoor backup is the South Regency Tennis Center at 6:30 p.m. … ONU is looking for its 11th OAC Tournament title in program history and its first since 2013 … Northern won the OAC Regular Season championship with a 5-4 victory over John Carroll in its regular-season finale on April 29 and earned a bye into the semifinals of the conference tournament … It was the 10th regular-season championship in program history and first since 2013 … That victory also ended JCU's 61-match OAC regular-season winning streak … The Polar Bears enter the postseason riding a 7-match winning streak … Freshman Peyton Specht is the latest OAC Men's Tennis Player of the Week after going 2-0 against JCU, winning 8-5 at No. 2 doubles with senior Andrew Cochran and getting a 6-2, 6-4 victory at No. 4 singles … Senior Zach Beaschler leads the team in overall wins this season, going 33-5 overall, including 15-2 in singles and 18-3 in doubles … Freshman Drew Swisher is 30-8 overall, going 11-4 in singles and 19-4 in doubles … Specht is 30-11 overall, going 17-4 in singles and 13-7 in doubles … Fifth-year senior Vinh Thai is 30-15 overall, going 16-6 in singles and 14-9 in doubles … Freshman Sam Sran leads the team in singles victories and is 20-6 overall … In five seasons at ONU. Thai is 53-30 in singles, 52-36 in doubles and 105-66 overall … Baldwin Wallace is coming off Wednesday's 5-3 win over No. 4 seed Capital in the quarterfinals … The Yellow Jackets won two of the three doubles courts and three singles courts for the victory, leaving one court unfinished … Trey Kernan and Matt McGee won 8-2 at No. 1 doubles, and Aidan Hicks and Adam Ziedler won 8-6 at No. 3 doubles … McGee won 6-2, 6-3 at No. 1 singles, Kernan won 7-5, 1-6, 6-0 at No. 2 singles, and Ziedler won 6-1, 6-2 at No. 5 singles.

ONU Statistical Leaders:

Series Record: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Baldwin Wallace by a 35-12 margin, including a 6-3 edge in OAC Tournament matchups ... ONU defeated BWU 9-0 in their regular-season meeting on April 22.

Head Coach Mike Bonnell: Bonnell is in his sixth season as head coach of the Polar Bears with a 69-40 record, a winning percentage of .633 ... He is 192-98 in 15 seasons overall at Ohio Dominican, Methodist (N.C.) and Ohio Northern for a .662 winning percentage.