Penn State men's tennis sweeps doubleheader in dominant fashion

It seems that the weekends have a positive effect on this year’s tennis squad, as they just keep winning on final days of the week.

On Saturday, Penn State defeated Bucknell and James Madison in dominant 6-1 and 7-0 wins to keep their perfect season alive and move to an unbeaten 6-0 on the season.

In the first match of the Saturday doubleheader, the Nittany Lions faced the Bucknell Bison, and the Lions certainly got out to an early lead.

The Lions quickly clinched the doubles points with wins from the pairs of David Kohan and Christian Lutschaunig (6-2), in addition to Roman Trkulja and Matt Galush (6-1).

The dominant style of play for the Lions carried over in the singles game, with five out of six Lions winning their respective matches, including the early wins game from Aws Laaribi and captain Matt Barry, and the clinching win in singles game from Tomas Hanzlik, who defeated his opponent 6-0, 7-5.

In the second match of the doubleheader, the Lions defeated James Madison 7-0. Yet again, the dominant play continued, as the doubles points were also easily clinched by the pairs of Kohan and Lutschaunig, Trkulja and Galush, in addition to Leo Stakhovsky and Barry.

The momentum kept rolling into the singles game, with all players winning their matches.

Coach Zinn was proud of his team and recognized their hard work throughout this season.

“Having a weekend off hurt us for the first match of the day. We weren’t as sharp but Bucknell pushed us hard,” Zinn said in an interview with GoPSUSports.com. “We needed that James Madison is a quality team and I think we played extremely well.”

The Lions will have a tough schedule ahead of them the rest of the season. They will play without any more weekend breaks, and will have three matches in two short days next weekend against Cornell, William & Mary, and NJIT.

Penn State men"s tennis sweeps doubleheader in dominant fashion