HILTON HEAD ISLAND, South Carolina – The College of Wooster men's tennis team scored an 8-1 win over Lawrence University during the team's spring break trip to South Carolina. Wooster played three matches in all, falling 7-2 to Carleton College and 8-1 to 30th-ranked University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in the other outings.

Senior Alon Liberman headlined the action, winning 6-4, 6-1 over Lawrence's Andrew Larson at No. 1 singles. The win marked Liberman's eighth in a row, and the seventh in the top flight, the longest run since alumnus Titas Bera rattled off 14 consecutive wins at No. 1 during the 2017-18 season. Carleton's Tarm Rojanasoonton got the better of Liberman 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (3) to end the streak, but the Scots' senior bounced right back with a convincing 6-1, 6-0 win over Cole Lindwall, who was ranked 16th nationally in the Intercollege Tennis Association's most recent national individual rankings.

In doubles, Liberman and classmate Austin Hanna downed Lawrence's Andrew Larson and Yui Ito 8-4 at No. 1, and they dispatched Carleton's Yuv Kataria and Aniketa Vipparala 8-5. Liberman scored his sixth straight doubles win during the Carleton victory, while it marked Hanna's fifth consecutive triumph. Hanna and Liberman hung in there with Whitewater's Alex Gray and John Zakowski, Div. III's 17th-ranked doubles pairing, before falling 8-6 on Monday.

Elsewhere against Lawrence, junior Alex Drewes won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 3, sophomore Shivam Dewan was near-perfect during his 6-1, 6-0 win at No. 4, that line was matched by senior Nebyou Minassie at No. 5, and sophomore Kevin Si stepped into the lineup and took care of Kenneth Penaherrera 6-1, 6-3 at No. 6.

Drewes and Minassie and Dewan and first-year Patrick Johnson won by identical 8-0 counts at second and third doubles, respectively, against Lawrence.

Competitive doubles was the theme throughout the Whitewater match. Drewes and Minassie scored six points off Lindwall and Rory Calabria, who won 8-6, while Niclas Goltz and Ryan Mitchell took an 8-5 match over Dewan and Johnson.

Hanna extended his second singles match with Whitewater's Calabria to a third set before falling 6-3, 4-6, 1-0 (10), and Johnson went to a third against Payton Adkisson, where the Warhawks won 3-6, 6-2, 1-0 (8).

Johnson was Wooster's other winner against Carleton, taking a marathon super tiebreaker from Noah Mueller 7-5, 5-7, 1-0 (12).

Wooster (6-5) travels to Wabash College (6-6) for its next match at 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 2.