COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – The Ursinus Men's Tennis team outlasted Dickinson 6-3 in a competitive Centennial Conference match on Sunday afternoon at the Ursinus Tennis Courts.
 
 
With the win, the Bears improved to 10-2 overall and to 2-1 in Centennial Conference action behind their second-straight win. Meanwhile, the Red Devils fell to 2-7 overall and 0-2 in conference play.
 
 
 
Ursinus edged the Red Devils in two of the three highly-contested doubles matches to gain the early 2-1 advantage into singles. Juniors Lars Jespersen and Will Oberholtzer downed Garrick Adams and Will Lewis 8-3 at No. 1 doubles for the first team point of the day. The No. 2 doubles team of juniors Darby Rogers and Ethan Yu won 8-6 over Thomas Griffin and Levi Veleanu before Senior Noah Mandel and first-year Andrei Bogdan were edged 8-7 by DJ Finnell and Florian Anderson at the No. 3 spot.
 
 
 
Rogers got the ball rolling in singles for the Bears as he bested Lewis 6-2, 6-3 at the No. 4 position. Jespersen impressed in his 6-3, 6-0 triumph over Adams at No. 1 singles and Yu locked up the match for the Bears by beating Veleanu 6-2, 6-4 at the No. 3 spot. Bogdan extended his collegiate record to 11-0 singles by taking down Finnell 6-0, 6-1 at No 5 singles for the Bears final point of the day. Oberholtzer suffered a tough 6-0, 4-6, (7-6) setback to Griffin at No. 2 singles and Mandel lost 2-6, 7-6, (10-12) to Anderson at the No. 6 position.
 
 
The Bears are right back in action tomorrow, April 3rd as they will travel to face Alvernia at 4:00 p.m.