Men's Tennis | 2/27/2015 11:59:00 PM
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Josh Doyle teammed with
Wilson Merrell for Macalester's lone doubles win and battled to a super tiebreaker in his number two singles match as Macalester dropped a 6-3 decision to St. Olaf in both teams' Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference opener.
Doyle and Merrell won their number two doubles match, 8-3, but suffered singles losses. Doyle, after losing a first set tiebreaker, cruised to a 6-1 win the second set before an 11-9 loss in the super tiebreaker. Merrell lost at four singles, 6-0, 6-1.
Brian Utz and
Aidan Tirpack dropped the number doubles match, to the eighth-ranked team in the region of Stephan Nolan and Joey Kronzer, 8-1, while
Sam Naden and
Carl Bergmann dropped at 8-4 decision at three doubles.
Utz rebounded against Nolan at number one singles with a 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 win and Tirpack won 6-2, 2-6, 10-7 at three singles to account for the Scots' final two victories on the evening.
Naden, at five singles, dropped a 6-0, 6-4 decision while
Perry Campbell suffered a 6-2, 6-2 loss at six singles.
The Scots are now idle until they begin a four-day run of matches in Hilton Head, S.C., March 16. Macalester opens its spring break trip by facing Greenville College.
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