Men's Tennis sweeps Mount Union 4-0 in semifinals of OAC Tournament

MASON — The Ohio Northern men's tennis team swept Mount Union 4-0 in the semifinals of the Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament on Friday.

The Basics

• Records: Ohio Northern (12-8 Overall), Mount Union (9-11 Overall).
• Venue: Lindner Family Tennis Center - Mason, Ohio.

Match Recap

• Junior Tyler Wood (Toledo/St. John's) and sophomore Ethan Remy (Lexington) each went 2-0 to lead the Polar Bears.
• Wood won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 2 singles and combined with freshman Dylan Catanese (Lexington) to win 6-1 at No. 1 doubles
• Remy won 6-1, 6-0 at No. 3 singles and combined with freshman Aiden Yeager (Springfield/Northwestern) to win 6-0 at No. 2 doubles.
• Sophomore Noah Boyce (Oakwood) clinched the match with a 6-0, 6-0 win at No. 6 doubles.

Notables

• Ohio Northern is the No. 1 seed, Mount Union is the No. 4 seed.
• The Polar Bears have won 14 OAC Tournament titles in program history, including the last four.
• Northern is now 21-4 all-time in OAC Tournament semifinal matches.
• In tournament play, the matches are played to completion, where the match is stopped as soon as a team reaches four team points.
• ONU won its fourth consecutive OAC Regular Season title this season.
• Northern was leading the other three singles courts when the match was completed.
• Yeager was winning 6-0, 4-3 with the match was clinched.
• Junior Kessler Hackenberger (Tipp City/Tippecanoe) was ahead 6-1, 2-1 at No. 4 singles.
• Freshman Nick Miller (Toledo/St. Francis) was on top 6-2, 3-0 at No. 5 singles.
• Hackenberger and sophomore Noah Ehret (Beavercreek) were winning 4-3 at No. 3 doubles when ONU clinched the doubles point.
• ONU leads the series with Mount Union by a 33-10 margin.
• Wood is now 103-62 in his career.
• Catanese leads the Polar Bears thus far this season with an 19-8 singles mark, a 17-9 doubles mark and a 36-17 overall record.
• Yeager is second with 16 singles wins and 30 overall victories.
• Wood also has a team-best 17 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 745-375-5 record, a winning percentage of .664.
• Fourth-year head coach Sean Swisher is 56-31 at the helm of the ONU men's tennis team, a winning percentage of .644.

Up Next

• The Polar Bears will return to action in the OAC Tournament Finals on Saturday at 2 pm against Otterbein.