Streak Comes to an End with Pepperdine

³⁰Pepperdine

⁴²Oklahoma

NORMAN – The Oklahoma men's tennis team saw its winning streak come to an end on Monday as OU fell to Pepperdine 4-3 at the Headington Family Tennis Center.

The Sooners made comeback push in singles, but fell short of the Waves to move to 8-4 on the year. Pepperdine remains undefeated at 10-0.

Pepperdine took the doubles point to open the match. OU's Mason Beiler and Justin Schlageter rolled to victory on court three, taking out Pepperdine's Robert Shelton and Pietro Fellin 6-3.

Alex Martinez and Max Stewart dropped their first match in five contests as they fell to Evan Shamlian and Tim Zeitvogel 7-5. Jake Van Emburgh and Jochen Bertsch narrowly fell to Waves Adrian Oetzbach and Daniel DeJong in a tiebreaker, 7-6 (4).

In singles, senior Bertsch won his fifth consecutive match, routing Pepperdine's Shelton 6-1, 6-1 to put OU on the board.

No. 1 07 Van Emburgh fell to DeJong 7-6 (2), 6-0 at the top spot and Alex Martinez was defeated by Tim Zeitvogel, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 to give the Waves a 3-1 lead in the match.

OU rallied to bring up 3-2 with a win from Schlageter on court five. The freshman defeated Enrique Luque Rico 5-7, 6-2, 6-3, breaking at deuce to win the match.

Mandlik battled through two tiebreakers, but fell just short of Oetzbach, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (8) on court three.

No. 100 Beiler added a win for the Sooners, outlasting No. 69 Corrado Summaria 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 at the No. 2 line.

OU returns to the courts on Saturday to host UMKC at 1 p.m. CT before a Sunday doubleheader with Nebraska at 11 a.m. and Arkansas-Pine Bluff at 5 pm.

Results

Singles
1. Daniel DeJonge (PEPPM) def. #107 Jake Van Emburgh (OU) 7-6 (7-2), 6-0
2. #100 Mason Beiler (OU) def. #69 Summaria, Corrado (PEPPM) 2-6, 6-4, 6-2
3. Oetzbach, Adrian (PEPPM) def. Mark Mandlik (OU) 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (10-8)
4. Zeitvogel, Tim (PEPPM) def. Alex Martinez (OU) 3-6, 6-3, 6-2
5. Justin Schlageter (OU) def. Luque Rico, Enrique (PEPPM) 5-7, 6-2, 6-3
6. Jochen Bertsch (OU) def. Shelton, Robert (PEPPM) 6-1, 6-1

Doubles
1. Oetzbach, Adrian/Daniel DeJonge (PEPPM) def. Jochen Bertsch/Jake Van Emburgh (OU) 7-6 (7-4)
2. Shamlian, Evan/Zeitvogel, Tim (PEPPM) def. Max Stewart/Alex Martinez (OU) 7-5
3. Justin Schlageter/Mason Beiler (OU) def. Shelton, Robert/Fellin, Pietro (PEPPM) 6-3

Order of finish: Doubles (3,2,1); Singles (6,1,4,5,3,2)