Men's Tennis improves to 4-1 in OAC action with 7-2 victory at Baldwin Wallace

By Tim Glon

BEREA — The Ohio Northern men's tennis team improved to 4-1 in the Ohio Athletic Conference and kept its league title hopes alive with a 7-2 victory at Baldwin Wallace on a beautiful Thursday afternoon at Pop Collins Tennis Courts.

The Polar Bears improve to 10-7 overall, while the Yellow Jackets fall to 12-3, 2-3.

Junior Kavya Desai (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and sophomores Peyton Specht (Munster, Ind.) and Drew Swisher (Findlay) each went 2-0 on the day to lead Ohio Northern.

ONU began the match by winning two of the three doubles courts.

BW won 8-2 at No. 1 doubles to take a quick 1-0 lead, but Desai and sophomore Tristan Munteanu (Draper, Utah/Corner Canyon) tied the match at 1-1 with an 8-4 win at No. 3 doubles.

Specht and Swisher won 8-6 at No. 2 doubles to give Northern a 2-1 lead entering singles play.

Freshman Nico Rogel (Alicante, Spain/Hoosac) won 6-4, 6-1 at No. 6 singles, Swisher won 6-4, 6-2 at No. 5 singles and Specht won 6-1, 7-5 at No. 3 singles to clinch the match with Ohio Northern ahead 5-1.

Desai made it 6-1 with a 6-7, 6-4, 10-2 win at No. 4 singles and sophomore Sam Sran (Punjab, India/St. Stephens and Gian Jyoti Global) made it 7-1 with a tight 7-5, 4-6, 14-12 win at No. 2 singles.

With the victory, ONU keeps its OAC Regular Season title hopes alive.

The Polar Bears will wrap up their regular season on Saturday with a match at Mount Union.

An Ohio Northern victory over Mount Union and a John Carroll win over Otterbein would leave ONU, OU and JCU in a three-way tie for the crown.