UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State men’s tennis team (13-11, 3-4 B1G) split their doubleheader on Sunday. The Nittany Lions dropped a match to the No. 7 Michigan Wolverines, 7-0, before winning their Senior Day matchup against the JMU Dukes, 5-2.
“It’s always good to finish with a W,” said head coach Jeff Zinn. “That being said, I didn’t feel we played the way we needed to play against a top-10 team in the first match of the day. Hats off to Michigan, they are well coached all the way down. They don’t give you an inch. And again, when we have opportunities, we have to take advantage of them, and we didn’t take advantage of the opportunities that we had in the match against Michigan. I wanted everybody to play, that’s why we played it out. But we thought we could sneak out some matches at the at the bottom and we came up close. I thought Loren Byers played really well today. But everybody needs to play well. So hopefully, we can use this match. A really good James Madison team, a team that has had a terrific year. It’s good that we were a little tired, but we battled hard, and I thought we played well. They made us play well. They’re a good team. Hopefully, we will use that momentum that we got in the second match in the upcoming weekend. It’s a big weekend, there’s a lot of seeding on the line in the Big Ten. We know what we have to do. Those teams know what they have to do. So, it’ll be a good tennis weekend.”
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