Following a cru­cial win over Grand Valley State University, the Ferris State University men’s ten­nis team fin­ished third in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament.

The fourth-seeded Bulldogs defeated the third-seeded Lakers 5–1 to claim third place in the con­fer­ence tour­na­ment. The tour­na­ment was hosted by Northwood University and held at the Midland Community Tennis Center.

After sweep­ing the dou­bles matches, FSU went on to take two of the first three com­pleted sin­gles matches.

Senior Kyle Revall and sopho­more Tyler Marengo were dou­ble win­ners for the Bulldogs. The pair com­piled straight-set sin­gles tri­umphs to go along with their dou­bles victories.

GVSU fell to 14–12 with the set­back. FSU improved to 14–8 over­all as the team is ranked 41^st nation­ally by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA.)

FSU con­cluded GLIAC tour­na­ment play with a 2–1 record. The team gar­nered an opening-round 5–2 win over fifth-seeded Michigan Tech University on April 15. On April 16, the Bulldogs fell to Northwood University 5–3 in semi­fi­nal action.

The num­ber one seeded Timberwolves were the even­tual tour­na­ment cham­pi­ons. They defeated two-seed Wayne State University in the finals.

FSU’s vic­tory over GVSU proved to be an impor­tant regional win. The Bulldogs are cur­rently ranked sixth and the Lakers fell to ninth in the ITA Division II Midwest Regional Rankings.

The team’s hopes of an NCAA-II tour­na­ment bid are still alive as the top six teams in the region will earn berths. FSU is wait­ing for the offi­cial announce­ment which is sched­uled to be made some­time this week.