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Ranked Owls Take Down Scots

Alex Drewes The College of Wooster men's tennis team is still looking for its first North Coast Athletic Conference win after falling to 17th-ranked Kenyon College on Saturday in a 9-0 defeat at the D.J. Hard Tennis Courts.

Kenyon (10-9), also ranked sixth regionally, moved to 4-1 in NCAC play, received a boost from its regionally ranked players as well. 

In doubles play, Wooster's Gabriel Escobar and Patrick Johnson fell 8-1 in the No. 1 doubles flight.

Kenyon's Luis Platas and Eric Zhang make up the No. 3 regionally ranked doubles team, but they were not paired with each other on Saturday.

Platas and Christophe LeBlanc defeated Alex Drewes and Shivam Dewan 8-3 in the No. 2 doubles flight. Zhang and Thomas Kallarakal beat Namit Misra and Walker Wood 8-1 in the No. 3 flight.

In singles play, No. 20 Kallarakal won his No. 2 bout against Drewes, but Drewes put up a fight in a 7-5, 6-2 loss.

Escobar fell 6-3, 6-2 in the No. 1 flight. Dewan took a 6-1, 6-0 loss at the No. 3 spot.

At No. 4, Misra lost 6-4, 6-0. At No. 5, Connor Streeter fell 6-0, 6-1, and Alex Anikeeff lost 6-0, 6-1 at the No. 6 flight.

Wooster drops to 4-9 and 0-3 in NCAC play. They will have another opportunity for an NCAC win Sunday when they travel to Denison University.