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Wayne State WSUM (6-8)
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Winner Barry BARRY-M (7-1)
Wayne State WSUM
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Final
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Barry BARRY-M
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Winner
Cedric Drenth
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Cedric Drenth won his 10th singles match at the second flight this season at Barry.

Match Recap: Men's Tennis | | Matthew Jurek, Sports Information Graduate Assistant

Men's Tennis Plays Final Match of Spring Break Trip at #5-Barry

The Warriors fell 6-1 to the Buccaneers in Miami Shores, Fla.

MIAMI SHORES, Fla. -- The eighth-ranked Wayne State University men's tennis team (6-8 overall) played in its fifth and final match on its Spring Break trip at fifth-ranked Barry University (7-1 overall), but the Buccaneers defeated the Warriors 6-1 on Tuesday afternoon at the Buccaneer Tennis Center in Miami Shores, Fla.

WSU and BU renewed acquaintances after previously meeting this season at the ITA National Indoor Championship on February 16 - a match which Barry won by a 4-3 final.

The Green and Gold finished its five-match Florida swing with a 1-4 ledger.

DOUBLES
Doubles finished in order by flight on Tuesday, with Barry capturing two of the three matches to claim an early 1-0 edge on home court.

WSU's Cedric Drenth (Sulzbach, Germany) and Daniel Grey (Wiesbaden, Germany), ranked fourth in the country, were the lone winners for the Warriors in doubles.  They posted a 6-2 win over Joao Ferreria and Adam Lynch at the first flight.

In an all-ranked affair at the No. 2 spot, fifth-ranked Luke Laws (Sunderland, England) and Dom Spicer (London, England) drew the No. 31-ranked Bastien Rieme and Tim Riedel.  BU's tandem earned a 6-1 win in the set.

With each team claiming one contest, the point came down to the third position between Wayne State's Joe Steele (Beverly Hills, Mich. / U. of Detroit Jesuit) / Emil Mikkelsen (Soenderborg, Denmark) and Barry's Leo Caill / Simone Cavalleri.  The two Buccaneers emerged with the 6-4 triumph.  Steele and Mikkelsen were playing with one another in doubles for the second time this spring.

SINGLES
The hosts won five of six singles matches to take the 6-1 win.

Drenth was the only Warrior to nab a victory, as the No. 18-ranked singles player tallied a strong triumph over the fifth-ranked Adam Lynch.  The final scores of the two sets at the No. 2 spot were 7-6 (7-2) and 6-4.

The first completed contest was at the No. 5 position, where Benjamin Hill (Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) faced Bastien Rieme.  Rieme won with back-to-back 6-2 decisions.

Mikkelsen played at sixth singles for a second straight match, but lost 7-5, 6-4 to Caill.

Grey (No. 13) faced Ferreria (No. 43) at the first flight, with the Barry player winning 6-4, 7-5.  This match served as the winning fourth point for Barry.

The middle two flights were immensely intense, with Spicer and Denali Kitayama (West Bloomfield Township, Mich. / Walled Lake Central (United States Air Force Academy)) putting up strong efforts.  Spicer lost his first set 6-2 to Riedel at the No. 3 spot, before tallying a tight 7-6 (9-7) win in the second set.  The two combatants played a 10-point super tiebreaker, in which Riedel won by a margin of 10-7.

Kitayama won his opening set vs. the No. 38-ranked David Rieme, but fell 7-5 in the second set.  The 10-point super tiebreaker was all Barry, as Rieme won 10-0 over the No. 62-ranked singles player from WSU.

UP NEXT
Wayne State will have nine full days off before competing in its next match, which will be at home against Midwest Regional foe Findlay on Friday, March 22.  First serve is scheduled for 2 p.m. from the Duchene Athletic Facility.

 
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