ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The Ursinus Men's Tennis team bounced back and cruised to a straight-set 9-0 road victory over Muhlenberg on Tuesday afternoon in Centennial Conference action.
With the win, the Bears improved to 9-2 overall and leveled their Centennial record to 1-1. Meanwhile the Mules fell to 5-5 overall and 0-3 in Centennial Conference play.
The Bears swept all three doubles matches to head into singles play up 3-0. First-years
Teddy Snyder and
Deniz Finkel won their No. 3 doubles match 8-4 over Josh Simon and Gabriel Tamarkin. The senior No. 1 doubles duo of
Lars Jespersen and
Will Oberholtzer earned an 8-4 triumph over Eric Owen Dyer and Matt Miller before seniors
Ethan Yu and
Darby Rogers edged William Rose and Harrison Neff 8-7 (8-6).
Rogers opened singles play by defeating Rose 6-1, 6-3 at the No. 3 spot while Jespersen locked up the match with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Dyer. Yu rallied to down Miller 2-6, 6-4, (7-6) at the No. 2 position and Finkel shut out Simon 6-0, 6-0 at No. 5 singles. First-year
Teddy Snyder took down Neff 6-2, 6-4 at No. 4 singles and Bogdan capped the match by winning a 6-4, 6-2 decision over Tamarkin at the No. 6 spot.
The Bears return to action on Saturday, April 6th as they will travel to face Dickinson at 1:00 p.m.