HILTON HEAD, S.C. – The Baldwin Wallace University men's tennis team split a pair of non-conference matches to open its spring break trip.

BW (6-1) defeated NAIA Mount Vernon Nazarene University (1-12) in its first match of the day by a final score of 6-3 at Shipyard Van Der Meer Tennis.  The Yellow Jackets closed out its first day as it fell to Pfeiffer (N.C.) University (3-2) by a final score of 6-3 at Chaplin Community Park.

Against, Mount Vernon Nazarene, BW won three doubles matches and three singles matches.

Results

• Junior All-Ohio Athletic Conference and Academic All-OAC Matt McGee (Ottawa Hills) and sophomore All-OAC Will Horvath (Oregon) Clay won at firs doubles by a score of 8-0
• Sophomores Henry Harders and Jacob Weingart (Tiffin/Columbian) won at second doubles by a score of 8-3
• Junior Academic All-OAC Caleb Reed (Wilmington) and junior All-OAC Adam Zeidler (Bay Village/Bay) won at third doubles by a score of 8-1
• Sophomore Joe Donnelly (Lodi/Cloverleaf) fell at first singles by scores of 6-2 and 7-5
• Junior Tyler Perkins (Geneva), who clinched the match, won at second singles by scores of 6-2 and 6-3
• Junior All-OAC Aidan Hicks (Oneida, N.Y.) won at third singles by scores of 6-0 and 6-4
• Reed fell at fourth singles by scores of 5-7, 7-5 and 13-11
• Freshman Nathan Meier (Brunswick) fell at fifth singles by scores of 6-4 and 7-5
• Sophomore Chaz Yates (Grafton/Midview) won at sixth singles by scores of 6-0 and 6-2

Against Pfeiffer, the Yellow Jackets won three singles matches.

Results

• McGee/Horvath fell at first doubles by a score of 8-5
• Harders/Weingart fell at second doubles by a score of 8-1
• Perkins/Hicks fell at third doubles by a score of 8-2
• McGee won at first singles by scores of 6-4 and 6-4
• Horvath won at second singles by scores of 6-2 and 6-1
• Zeidler fell at third singles by a score of 8-0
• Weingart won at fourth singles by a score of 8-6
• Harders fell at fifth singles by scores of 6-3 and 6-1
• Donnelly fell at sixth singles by scores of 6-0 and 6-2

BW is back in action on Monday, March 4 when it continues its spring break trip in Hilton Head with a non-conference match against Lancaster Bible (Pa.) College at Chaplin Community Park at 12:30 p.m.