Men's Tennis falls to Oberlin in tight 5-4 contest
March 3, 2024
ADA — The Ohio Northern men's tennis team dropped a tight 5-4 non-conference decision to Oberlin on a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon outdoors at the West Campus Courts.
The Basics
- Records: Ohio Northern (7-4), Oberlin (4-3)
- Venue: West Campus Courts - Ada, Ohio.
The Match
- Northern won two of the three doubles courts, but the Yeomen grabbed four of the six singles courts to rally for the win.
- Junior Peyton Specht (Munster, Ind.) and freshman Tyler Wood (Toldeo/St. John's Jesuit) won 8-2 at No. 2 doubles and freshman Kessler Hackenberger (Tipp City/Tippecanoe) and Junior Drew Swisher (Findlay) won 8-3 at No. 3 doubles to give ONU a 2-0 lead.
- Wood made it 3-1 Polar Bears with a 6-0, 6-1 win at No. 6 singles.
- OC tied the match at 3-3 with wins at No. 4 and No. 2 singles.
- Hackenberger gave ONU a 4-3 lead with a 6-2, 1-6, 6-3 win at No. 5 singles.
- But the Yeomen would win 7-5, 6-3 at No. 1 singles and 0-6, 6-2, 6-3 at No. 3 singles to clinch the match.
Notables
- The match was Northern's first outdoor match of the spring season.
- Wood leads the team with a 10-5 singles record.
- Specht has a team-best 12-4 doubles mark and Hackenberger is a team-best 19-5 overall.
- ONU is now 5-14 all-time against OC.
- Second-year head coach Sean Swisher is now 18-12 at the helm of the ONU men's tennis team, a winning percentage of .600.
Up Next
- The Polar Bears will return to action March 10 against Macalester (Minn.) on the first match of its annual spring break trip to Orlando, Fla.
