Men's Tennis: Cedarville (1-1 Overall) at Ohio Northern (1-0 Overall)
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, 5 pm - Westwood Tennis Center, Lima, Ohio
Wednesday's Preview: Ohio Northern will continue its 2022 fall season with a 5 pm match against Cedarville on Wednesday at Westwood Tennis Center in Lima ... The match was originally scheduled for 4 pm at West Campus Courts in Ada, but has been moved due to rain forcast in the area ... The NCAA mandated a 7-point scoring system this season for Division II schools, joining the NCAA Division I schools who have been using the scoring system for many years ... The NCAA Division III schools are still using the 9-point system ... Wednesday's contest will use the 9-point scoring system ... ONU opened its fall season with a 7-0 sweep of Adrian (Mich.) on September 3 ... Northern is led by sophomores Sam Sran and Tristan Munteanu and junior Kavya Desai who are all 2-0 on the season ... In singles play Sran, Munteanu, and Desai are joined by freshman Nicolas Rogel and sophomores Peyton Specht and Drew Swisher at 1-0 on the season ... The doubles teams of senior Matt Garcia and Sran and Desai and Munteanu are 1-0 ... The Polar Bears are currently undefeated in both singles and doubles play at 6-0 and 2-0, respectively ... Cedarville enters Wednesday's match with a record of 1-1, falling to Indiana East 5-2 and sweeping Wittenberg 7-0 on September 10 and 15, respectively ... The Yellow Jackets are led by Jake Durham and Penn Morrison with a 3-1 overall record and a 2-0 mark in singles play ... As a doubles team Durham and Morrsion are 1-1 ... On the season Cedarville is 8-4 in singles play and 3-3 in doubles play.
ONU Returning Leaders:
| Singles Wins | Doubles Wins | Overall Wins | ||||||||
| 1. | Munteanu | 1-0 | 1. | Garcia | 1-0 | 1. | Specht | 2-0 | ||
| Specht | 1-0 | Sran | 1-0 | 2. | Sran | 2-0 | ||||
| Sran | 1-0 | Munteanu | 1-0 | 3. | Muneanu | 2-0 | ||||
| Swisher | 1-0 | Desai | 1-0 | |||||||
| Desai | 1-0 | |||||||||
| Rogel | 1-0 |
Series Record: Cedarville leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 9-7-1 margin ... Cedarville has won the last five meetings and eight of the last nine after ONU won seven of the first 8 meetings ... The lone tie in the series came in 1972 when the teams played to a 4-4 tie at Ohio Northern.
Interim Head Coach Sean Swisher: Swisher is in his first season as interim head coach and is 1-0.
