Rolling in the GLIAC, the Ferris State University men’s ten­nis team swept this weekend’s matches against Tiffin University and Findlay University to stroll to 4–0 in con­fer­ence play.

This past Friday the Bulldogs trav­eled to Ohio to take on the Tiffin University Dragons and came away with an out­stand­ing victory.

The Bulldogs swept the Dragons in all matches to take the over­all game by a 9–0 score. Leading the way for the Bulldogs was senior Oriol Vidal Cortes as he won his match in two straight sets 6–0, 6–1. The other sin­gle win­ners for the Bulldogs were fresh­man Laurent Galarneau, senior Jack Swan, senior Steven Roberts, sopho­more Otto Keresztes and junior Razven Mag.

The dou­bles matchups were no dif­fer­ent as the Bulldogs topped three dou­bles teams, destroy­ing the Dragons and cat­a­pult­ing the Bulldogs to a 9–0 win at Tiffin University.

Senior player Justin Hermes said, “It was a good team win over the week­end, we expect to beat teams like that.”

Next on tap for the Bulldogs was the Oilers of Findlay University and another early con­fer­ence road matchup went right for the Bulldogs, as they cleaned up the Oilers by a total match score of 8–1 and swept the weekend.

With the win, FSU has a 9–5 over­all record and a 4–0 GLIAC con­fer­ence record. The only loss of the match for FSU was a dou­bles match-up by the final score of 8–6.

A key player in this win was Galarneau as he took out the num­ber one matchup in three sets by beat­ing Kyle Collette 6–3, 6–7, 10–5.

Going 17–1 in this weekend’s matchups is noth­ing short of ter­rific, because on the road in con­fer­ence play any­body can beat any­body on any given day, so the opti­mism on the courts is high.

This weekend’s suc­cess wasn’t an indi­vid­ual effort, by any means, as Hermes pointed out, “I’d like to give a shout out to Otto Keresztes and Razvan Mag for their play as of late.”

Next on tap for FSU is a home matchup against con­fer­ence oppo­nent Northwood University on March 28 as they look to keep their unde­feated con­fer­ence mark intact against the Timberwolves.

With the strong start in GLIAC play, the Bulldogs have high hopes for their 2012 campaign.

As for the rest of the sea­son, Hermes states that the team’s goals remain the same.

“We want to win the GLIAC and even­tu­ally get into the NCAAs,” Hermes said.

The Bulldogs are cer­tainly off to a strong start to accom­plish­ing their goals and hope to take the next step against Northwood University on March 28 at the FSU Racquet and Fitness
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