INDIANAPOLIS – The Marian men's tennis team took down IU East Sunday afternoon 6-1 to win their second straight match of the spring season. Marian's record on the season is 8-5 with the win.

Marian got out early with the lead after Ashwin Bhat and Jones McNamar defeated Matthew Nel and Kyle Hollingsworth 6-1 at the No. 2 spot. At No. 1 doubles, Andrew Ilett and Jacob Wittenbaum fell 6-4 to Franciisco Faundez and Sebastian Torrealba. However, the Knights got the doubles point as IU East had to forfeit the No. 3 spot due to a short number of players.

Holding the lead going into singles action, Shadi Al Tori got the Knights started by picking up the 6-1, 6-0 win over Clay Conner at No. 5 singles. At the No. 1 spot, Mark Griffin took down Faundez 6-3, 6-4, followed by Dmitrii Voshchenkov picking up the 7-6 (7-4), 6-4 victory over Nel. The Red Wolves saw their only victory in singles at the No. 2 spot, with Ilett losing in three sets, 5-7, 6-3, 1-0 (10-8) to Torrealba. McNamar finished off Hollingsworth 7-5, 6-1 at No. 4 singles, while Wittenbaum won by forfeit at No. 6 singles.

Marian will return to the courts March 6 against Missouri Valley College to kick off their spring break trip.

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