Bourbonnais, Ill. - The Marian men's tennis team earned a comfortable 6-1 victory Thursday afternoon, as they went on the road to take down Olivet Nazarene 6-1. Marian moves to 16-8 overall on the year.

The Knights won the doubles point to take a lead in the match, grinding a tie-breaker set at No. 1 doubles to take the point. Mark Griffin and Jona Henze suffered a loss at No. 3 doubles in the first match of the day that ended, losing 6-1 against Sanskar Choubey and Paul Saleh. Marian rebounded with a win at No. 2 doubles with a win to level the doubles score, with Ashwin Bhat and Jones McNamar winning 6-2 against Carlo Cota and Juan Banuls. With the point lying on the No. 1 court, Andrew Ilett and Shadi Al Tori rallied through a tie-break point, winning 7-6 (8-6) to give the Knights a 1-0 lead in the match.

Griffin rebounded in singles to score a 6-2, 6-2 win at No. 1 singles over Cota, while Bhat won a three-set match at No. 4 singles to push Marian ahead 3-0 in the match. Bhat won by scores of 6-2, 3-6, 1-0 (10-4) over Choubey. Marian earned the clinching point of the match at No. 5 singles with Henze defeating Brian Ayala 6-2, 6-0 to move the match score to 4-0.

Dmitrii Voshchenkov won in three sets over Davi Toledo at No. 2 singles, winning the final two sets to take a 3-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-2) win. The lone lost point of the match came at No. 3 singles as Ilett fell to Banuls 4-6, 6-2, 0-1 (12-10), but Marian would end with a victory at No. 6 singles with McNamar winning 6-2, 7-6 (7-5), 1-0 (10-7) as he defeated Saleh. 

Marian will play next April 13 traveling to St. Louis to play against Missouri Baptist. 

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