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Scots Rally in Singles to Top St. Ambrose on Second Half of Spring Trip

Shivam Dewan, Wooster tennis HILTON HEAD ISLAND, South Carolina – The College of Wooster men's tennis team stormed back in singles, taking five of the six matches to post a 6-3 win over Saint Ambrose College on Sunday, then fell 6-3 to Union College (New York) on the spring trip finale on Monday morning.

Wooster (4-6) junior Shivam Dewan and senior Alex Drewes denied St. Ambrose a doubles sweep with an 8-4 win in the second flight on Sunday. Both won their respective singles matches, with Dewan topping Gabriel Guimaray 6-3, 6-2 at No. 3 and Drewes turning down Brian Lelm 6-3, 6-4 at No. 2.

Senior Connor Streeter secured the victory with a 6-0, 6-4 win over Bennet Piotrowski at fifth singles, sophomore Patrick Johnson started off the singles comeback with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Gianfranco Garcia in the fourth flight, and first-year Namit Misra overcame a 0-6 first set to win 0-6, 6-0, 1-0 (9) in the sixth flight.

The script was flipped in Monday's match with Union, as Wooster led 2-1 after doubles before the Dutchmen won five of the six singles matches. Dewan and Drewes blanked Seth Prusko and Aidan O'Brien 8-0 at second doubles, while senior Alex Anikeeff and Misra took the third doubles match from Bailey McAtee and Ian Schunk 8-5.

Dewan was Wooster's lone winner in singles, taking the fourth flight match from O'Brien 6-0, 6-2. Notable, the junior is rapidly closing in on 50 career collegiate wins. He is currently at 43. Dewan brings a three-match winning streak at both singles and doubles back to Ohio.

Wooster's idle until a 3 p.m. match against Wabash College on Saturday, April 1. The match is the Scots' North Coast Athletic Conference opener, and Wooster is playing a full round robin of counting conference matches this spring. Teams were previously broken into two divisions for conference play and only matches against teams within your division were documented as conference matches.