GRIFFITH, Ind. - Sophomore Ulf Grosseloh (Maximiliansau, Germany) and freshman Leon Kah (Munich, Germany) collected up the victory at No. 2 doubles, but it was not enough as the Purdue Northwest men's tennis team dropped a Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) match to Northwood University (Mich.) Saturday. The Timberwolves (12-3, 4-2 GLIAC) defeated the Pride (7-10, 1-6 GLIAC), 8-1, at Match Point Tennis and Fitness Club in Griffith, Ind.

Grosseloh and Kah got the victory at No. 2 doubles against NU's David Reinauer and Ivan Medrgnskyi, 8-3. Northwood won the other two matches at doubles competition. Junior Moritz Gisy (Duesseldorf, Germany) and sophomore Mauricio Villacres (Guayaquil, Ecuador) obtained four games at No. 1 doubles, but NU's Mikhail Fomenkov and Kobus Sauerman achieved the victory. 

Freshmen Dru Kennedy (LaPorte, Ind./LaPorte) and Carter Moldenhauer (Michigan City, Ind./Marquette) landed a pair of games at No. 3 doubles, but NU's Ben Brandherm and Pablo Salamanca pulled out the victory.  Gisy put up a battle at No. 2 singles against NU's Sauerman, forcing a third set; but he ended up dropping the third set and the match, 6-4, 5-7, 10-6. 

Kah also fought hard in a three-set thriller, but dropped his match to NU's Reinauer at No. 3 singles, 4-6, 7-5, 10-7.  Villacres came up just short in his first set at No. 5 singles, but ended up falling in straight sets against NU's Salamanca, 7-5, 6-1. 

Grosseloh won four games at No. 1 singles in the first set, but was unable to pick up the victory as NU's Fomenkov, 6-4, 6-1.  Diego Pimentel (Guayaquil, Ecuador) picked up a pair of games in each of his sets at No. 4 singles, but NU's Brandherm got the victory, 6-2, 6-2. 

Purdue Northwest concludes its regular season Sunday as the Pride take on GLIAC foe Grand Valley State University (Mich.) at Match Point Tennis and Fitness Club. Sunday's match is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. (CT).