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 Colantone, 8-2. 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.