Men's Tennis

Purdue Northwest Men's Tennis Falls in GLIAC Match to GVSU

GRIFFITH, Ind. -- The Purdue Northwest men's tennis team dropped a Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) match to Grand Valley State (Mich.) Sunday to end its regular season.  The Lakers (14-7, 5-3 GLIAC) defeated the Pride (7-11, 1-7 GLIAC), 9-0, at Match Point Tennis and Fitness Club in Griffith, Ind. 

GVSU won all three doubles matches to start off 3-0 going into singles competition.  Junior Moritz Gisy (Duesseldorf, Germany) and sophomore Mauricio Villacres (Guayaquil, Ecuador) nearly pulled it off at No. 1 doubles, but got edged out by GVSU's Alex Steenoven and Drew Coleman, 9-7. 

Sophomore Ulf Grosseloh (Maximiliansau, Germany) and freshman Leon Kah (Munich, Germany) won a pair of games at No. 2 doubles, but suffered the defeat to GVSU's Sebastia Legsoulic and DJ Colantone8-2.  Freshmen Dru Kennedy (LaPorte, Ind./LaPorte) and Carter Moldenhauer (Michigan City, Ind./Marquette) also picked up a couple of games at No. 3 doubles against GVSU's Jacob Geissler and Nick Urban, but dropped the match, 8-2. 

Gisy won two games in the first set and three in the second, but suffered a setback at No. 2 singles against GVSU's Geissler, 6-2, 6-3. Kah fought hard at No. 3 singles against GVSU's Steenoven, 6-2, 6-3. 

Kennedy won a pair of games in his match at No. 6 singles, but GVSU's Eric Zwemer pulled out the victory, 6-2, 6-2.  Junior Diego Pimentel (Guayaquil, Ecuador) won two games in the first set, but dropped his match to GVSU's Urban at No. 4 singles, 6-2, 6-0. 

Grosseloh won two games in his second set, but lost his match at No. 1 singles to GVSU's Legsoulic, 6-0, 6-2.

Purdue Northwest finishes its eighth men's tennis season as a sport and first season in the GLIAC with a 7-11 record overall and 1-7 mark in conference play under second-year head coach Lucian Tabic.  PNW picked up its first GLIAC win in program history with a 5-4 win against Michigan Tech on April 7.

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Players Mentioned

Carter Moldenhauer

Carter Moldenhauer

Freshman
Ulf Grosseloh

Ulf Grosseloh

Sophomore
Moritz Gisy

Moritz Gisy

Junior
Diego Pimentel

Diego Pimentel

Junior
Dru Kennedy

Dru Kennedy

Freshman
Mauricio Villacres

Mauricio Villacres

Sophomore
Leon Kah

Leon Kah

Senior

Players Mentioned

Carter Moldenhauer

Carter Moldenhauer

Freshman
Ulf Grosseloh

Ulf Grosseloh

Sophomore
Moritz Gisy

Moritz Gisy

Junior
Diego Pimentel

Diego Pimentel

Junior
Dru Kennedy

Dru Kennedy

Freshman
Mauricio Villacres

Mauricio Villacres

Sophomore
Leon Kah

Leon Kah

Senior