After two wins each on Saturday (March 16), Ashland University's men's and women's tennis teams are entering 2024 Great Midwest Athletic Conference play in fine form.
The Eagle men and women each defeated Marietta and Salem on the road on Saturday – men winning 9-0 over Marietta and 4-3 vs. Salem, and the women doing the same, 9-0 and 6-1.
With those victories, the AU men improve to 9-0, and the AU women 9-3, in 2023-24 – both teams already surpassing their 2022-23 win totals of eight each.
POST-GAME NUGGETS
- In the Ashland-Marietta men's match, doubles wins were earned by the No. 1 pair of sophomore Tomas Paskauskas and freshman Batsomi Marobela (8-4) and the No. 2 team of junior Fabian Bussard and sophomore Benedikt Weinboerner (8-0). Singles victories were earned by Marobela at No. 1 (6-1, 6-2), Bussard at No. 2 (6-1, 6-0), freshman Doug Cree at No. 3 (6-0, 6-0), sophomore Gabriel Seminario at No. 4 (6-0, 6-1), and sophomore Reid Opel at No. 5 (6-0, 6-1).
- The AU-Marietta women's match saw 8-0 doubles wins from the No. 1 team of freshmen Evie Pryor and Luciana Ottoni and the No. 2 team of freshman Brittany Witsken and sophomore Alley Stoehr. Ashland's four non-forfeit wins came from junior Claudia Adcock at No. 1 (6-0, 6-0), Witsken at No. 2 (6-0, 6-0), Pryor at No. 3 (6-1, 6-1), and Stoehr at No. 4 (6-0, 6-1).
- Ashland's men's victory over Salem was keyed by taking all three doubles matches – Paskauskas and Marobela at No. 1 (6-3), sophomore Rodrigo Moura Ludgero and Bussard at No. 2 (6-4), and junior Omar Prince and Opel at No. 3 (6-4). The three Eagle singles wins came from Bussard at No. 4 (6-4, 6-4), Cree at No. 5 (6-3, 6-4) and Seminario at No. 6 (6-4, 6-4).
- In the Ashland-Salem women's matchup, the Eagles took the two non-forfeit doubles matches – sophomore Anna Corbel and junior Kortney Reed at No. 1 (6-2), and sophomores Ana Penteado and Constanza Arancibia at No. 2 (6-4). At singles, winners were Adcock at No. 1 (6-4, 6-2), Penteado at No. 2 (6-3, 6-2), Arancibia at No. 3 (6-4, 3-1 ret.), and Ottoni at No. 5 (6-0, 6-0).
UP NEXT
The start of Great Midwest play for both teams on March 23 at 1 p.m. vs. Cedarville at the Deborah Liebert Karl Tennis Complex.
