BEREA, OHIO – The defending Ohio Athletic
Conference champion Baldwin Wallace University men's tennis team
defeated Ohio Athletic Conference and Cleveland cross-town rival
John Carroll University, 8-1, today (Wednesday, April 24, 2013) in
an OAC match at the The "Pop" Collins Tennis Courts. BW has
two more regular season matches remaining.
The victory improves BW's record to 21-1 overall and 6-1 in the
OAC. The Yellow Jackets have won 50 of their last 51 regular
season dual matches, including a 29-match streak a year ago and a
20-match streak this season. JCU drops to 4-12 overall and
3-5 in the OAC.
The Yellow Jackets led, 2-1, after doubles play and won all six
singles matches.
Highlighting the singles action for BW was All-OAC No. 1 senior
Joe
Horvath (North Royalton), who defeated senior Ryan
Mullaney, 6-3 and 6-2, and improved to 22-3 this season and 95-11
for his career. Horvath is 10 wins shy of
all-time leader James Daly (2005-08).
In addition in singles, All-OAC No. 2 sophomore Kyle
Patterson (Wooster/ Triway) beat junior Sean Graham,
6-3 and 6-1, to up his season record to 22-5. No. 3 freshman
Peter
Harris (Akron/ Richfield Revere) defeated freshman
Sawyer Dina, 6-0 and 6-1, and improved to 24-3. Academic
All-OAC No. 4 senior Alex
Kearney (North Olmsted) beat freshman Peter Nemes, 6-0
and 6-3, to climb to 19-3. Freshman No. 5 Doug
Ganim (Olentangy/ Orange) defeated junior Eric
Grimaldi, 7-6 (with a 7-4 tiebreaker) and 6-2, to improve to
21-5. Academic All-OAC and CAPITAL ONE Academic All-District
7 No. 6 junior Brad
Minrovic (Akron/ Ellet) beat junior Paul Olexa, 6-4,
4-6 and 10-4, and improved to 20-6.
In doubles action, the No. 2 tandem of Minrovic
and Patterson beat Grimaldi and Nemes, 8-1, to
improve to 17-5. At No. 3, Horvath and
Kearney defeated Olexa and Dina, 8-0, and improved
to 14-0.
BW returns to the courts on Friday, April 26 when it travels to
Columbus for an OAC make-up match versus Capital University at 3:30
p.m. and then ends its season at Marietta College on Saturday,
April 27 at 1 p.m.
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