Men's Tennis Loses to Northern Illinois

Saturday, February 18

Rockford, Ill.

5 p.m.

South Dakota State University

Northern Illinois

Photo by: Inertia Sports Media/Dave Eggen

2/18/2017 7:31:00 PM | Men's Tennis

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ROCKFORD, Ill. – The South Dakota State men's tennis team lost 7-0 to Northern Illinois Saturday afternoon at Boylan Tennis Center.

The Huskies swept the singles matches and won the doubles point to improve to 9-2 on the season.

Senior Emerson Styles was the closest to scoring a win for SDSU, dropping a 7-5, 6-2 decision to Bor Schweiger Muzar at No. 1 singles.

The Jacks return to action Feb. 26 when they play UMKC at 11 a.m. in Kansas City, Mo.

Doubles
No. 1 – Marbach/Lundkvist (NIU) def. Styles/Tang (SDSU), 6-1
No. 2 – Muzar/Manzanas (NIU) def. Castro/Pereira (SDSU), 6-3
No. 3 – Hamel/Hjertonsson (NIU) def. Ward/Santos (SDSU), 6-4

Singles
No. 1 – Bor Schweiger Muzar (NIU) def. Emerson Styles (SDSU), 7-5, 6-2
No. 2 – Eric Marbach (NIU) def. Marco Paulo Castro (SDSU), 7-5, 6-0
No. 3 – Georg Lundkvist (NIU) def. Gabriel Santos (SDSU), 6-2, 6-2
No. 4 – Carlos Manzanas (NIU) def. Chuck Tang (SDSU), 6-1, 6-2
No. 5 – Louis-Philippe Hamel (NIU) def. Lucas Pereira (SDSU), 6-1, 6-2
No. 6 – Austin Russell (NIU) def. Elliot Ward (SDSU), 6-2, 7-5

-GoJacks.com-