Men's Tennis wins OAC Regular Season title outright, Wood joins 100-Win Club with 7-0 sweep of Baldwin Wallace
April 22, 2026
LIMA — The Ohio Northern men's tennis team clinched its third consecutive outright OAC Regular Season title with a sweep of Baldwin Wallace 7-0 indoors on Wednesday.
The Basics
- Records: Ohio Northern (11-8 Overall, 3-0 OAC), Baldwin Wallace (11-4 Overall, 0-2 OAC).
- Venue: Westwood Tennis Center - Lima, Ohio.
Match Recap
- Northern swept all nine courts to record the victory.
- Freshman Aiden Yeager (Springfield/Northwestern) won 3-6, 6-3, 1-0 at No. 1 singles to lead the Polar Bears.
- Junior Tyler Wood (Toledo/St. John's) won 6-3, 6-4 at No. 2 singles.
- Sophomore Ethan Remy (Lexington) won 6-2, 6-1 at No. 3 singles.
- Freshman Dylan Catanese (Lexington) won 6-3, 6-4 at No. 4 singles.
- Junior Kessler Hackenberger (Tipp City/Tippecanoe) won 6-2, 4-6, 1-0 at No. 5 singles.
- Freshman Nick Miller (Toledo/St. Francis) won 6-2, 6-2 at No. 6 singles.
- Northern outscored the cardinals 18-7 to take the three doubles courts.
- Wood and Catanese won 6-0 at No. 1 doubles.
- Yeager and Remy won 6-3 at No. 2 doubles.
- Sophomore Noah Boyce (Oakwood) and Hackenberger won 6-4 at No. 3 doubles.
Notables
- Wood is now 101-62 in his career and became the 25th member of ONU's 100-Win Club with his two victories.
- Catanese leads the Polar Bears thus far this season with an 19-8 singles mark, a 16-9 doubles mark and a 35-17 overall record.
- Yeager is second with 16 singles wins and 30 overall victories.
- Wood also has a team-best 16 doubles wins.
- Hackenberger is 13-10 in singles action, 12-9 in doubles play and is 25-19 overall.
- He is 92-52 in his career and needs just eight more wins to join the 100-Win Club.
- Ohio Northern is in its 89th season of men's tennis and has a 744-375-5 record, a winning percentage of .664.
- Fourth-year head coach Sean Swisher is 55-31 at the helm of the ONU men's tennis team, a winning percentage of .640.
Up Next
- The Polar Bears will be the No. 1 seed in next week's OAC Tournament at the Lindner Tennis Center in Mason. ONU will host the No. 4 seed May 1 in the OAC Tournament Semifinals at 4 pm.
