TYLER, Texas – The 35th-ranked Ouachita men's tennis team closed the month of March on Tuesday with a 7-0 road loss to seventh-ranked UT Tyler.
The match featured five nationally-ranked players in singles combined between the two teams and three ranked doubles tandems.
The Patriots started with a 1-0 lead by winning doubles matchups on courts two and three.
Ramon Strassmann and
Yarin Aebi salvaged one doubles win for the Tigers with a tiebreaker victory on court one.
In singles, UTT swept all six matchups, two of which needed a tiebreaker to determine a victor.
The Tigers open GAC/MIAA play this week, traveling to Durant on Thursday to take on Southeastern Oklahoma State before hosting Arkansas-Fort Smith on Saturday.
