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Men's Tennis clinches share of fourth consecutive OAC Regular Season championship with 4-3 victory at Otterbein in battle of league unbeatens

Men's Tennis clinches share of fourth consecutive OAC Regular Season championship with 4-3 victory at Otterbein in battle of league unbeatens
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April 24, 2025

WESTERVILLE — The Ohio Northern men's tennis team clinched at least a share of its fourth consecutive Ohio Athletic Conference Regular Season championship withg a 4-3 victory at Otterbein in a battle of league unbeatens on a warm and beautiful Thursday afternoon.

The Basics

  • Records: Ohio Northern (9-7 Overall, 3-0 OAC); Otterbein (13-8 Overall, 2-1 OAC).
  • Venues: Sanders Tennis Courts — Westerville, Ohio.

Individual Highlights

  • ONU won all three the doubles courts to win the doubles point, then won three of the six singles courts to record the victory.
  • Freshman Noah Boyce (Oakwood) clinched the title with a 6-3, 6-2 victory at No. 4 singles to put Northern on top 4-2.
  • Sophomore Kessler Hackenberger (Tipp City/Tippecanoe) won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 5 singles to give ONU a 2-0 lead.
  • Sophomore Tyler Wood (Toledo/St. John's) then won 6-0, 6-1 at No. 3 singles to extend the lead to 3-2.
  • The Cardinals won courts 1 and 6 to pull within 3-2.
  • Senior Peyton Specht (Munster, Ind.) and Wood and won 6-1 at No. 1 doubles.
  • Boyce and junior T.J. Schultz (Grand Blanc, Mich.) won 7-6(7) at No. 2 doubles.
  • Hackenberger and sophomore Kosuke Asada (Findlay) won 7-5 at No. 3 doubles.

Notables

  • The Polar Bears have now won or shared 13 OAC Regular Season titles since the league began its current round-robin regular season schedule format to select the regular season title in 2000.
  • ONU leads the series between the two schools by a 42-13 margin.
  • The NCAA had adopted a 7-point team scoring system for Division III, where the three doubles contests only count for one team point as is used in NCAA Divisions I and II.
  • Wood leads the team with a 18-6 singles record and Boyce is right behind at 17-8.
  • Specht, Wood and Boyce each have 12 doubles wins.
  • Wood has a team-best 30-19 overall record.
  • Boyce is second overall at 29-20.
  • Specht is 118-82 overall in his career, which includes a 54-45 singles mark and a 63-37 doubles record.
  • His 118 victories tie him for No. 9 all-time in ONU history and his 63 doubles wins ranks 10th all-time at ONU.
  • Senior Sam Sran (Punjab, India/St. Stephens and Gian Jyoti Global) is 51-41 in singles, 28-37 in doubles and is 79-78 overall.
  • Third-year head coach Sean Swisher is 41-21 at the helm of the ONU men's tennis team, a winning percentage of .661.

Up Next

  • The Polar Bears will play twice more this week, with a 4 pm match against non-conference foe Wabash (Ind.) on Friday in the home finale on Friday.