Men's Tennis: Ohio Northern (5-6 Overall, 0-0 OAC) H v Marietta (3-5 Overall, 0-0 OAC; at Wittenberg (3-5 Overall)
Saturday, Mar. 25, Noon - Westwood Tennis and Fitness Center, Lima, Ohio
Sunday, Mar. 26, 1 pm - Five Seasons Tennis Club, Dayton, Ohio
| Marietta Match Program (.pdf) |
Saturday's Matches: Ohio Northern will begin the defense of its 2022 Ohio Athletic Conference Regular Season title on Saturday with a home match against Marietta at Westwood Tennis and Fitness Center in Lima ... The match will be played alongside the ONU-MC women's match at the same time ... Northern will then wrap up the non-conference portion of its schedule on Sunday with a 1 pm match at Wittenberg ... The Polar Bears are coming off a 2-3 record during its annual spring break trip last week ... Northern defeated Emerson (Mass.) and Springfield (Mass.) and fell to Bentley (Mass.), Franklin & Marshall (Pa.) and Macalester (Minn.) ... Thus far this season, sophomore Sam Sran leads the Polar Bears with an 12-6 singles record and a 20-15 overall mark ... Freshman Nico Rogel is second with a 11-5 singles mark, an 8-2 doubles record and a 19-7 overall mark ... Sophomore Drew Swisher is third with a 10-6 singles record ... Sophomore Tristan Munteanu has a team-best 10-5 doubles record and is 19-13 overall ... Rogel, junior Kavya Desai and Sran each have eight doubles victories ... Marietta enters Saturday's match coming off an 8-1 loss against Ohio Wesleyan on Thursday ... Senior Spencer Hall won 6-4, 7-6(3) at No. 4 singles ... MC has a 5-4 victory over Geneva (Pa.), a 4-3 win over Earlham (Ind.) and a 6-3 win over Thomas (Maine) this season ... Hall leads the team this season with five singles wins and seven victories overall.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Singles Wins | Doubles Wins | Overall Wins | ||||||||
| 1. | Sran | 12-6 | 1. | Munteanu | 10-5 | 1. | Sran | 20-15 | ||
| 2. | Rogel | 11-5 | 2. | Rogel | 8-2 | 2. | Rogel | 19-7 | ||
| 3. | Swisher | 10-6 | Desai | 8-4 | Munteanu | 19-13 | ||||
| Sran | 8-9 |
Series Record: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 32-0 margin ... ONU is 16-0 in matches at home and has won the last six matches without losing a court ... WU leads the series with ONU by a 30-14 margin ... Northern won last year's meeting 6-3 in Ada.
Head Coach Sean Swisher: Swisher is in his first season as head coach and has a 5-6 record.
