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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology men's tennis team returns to their home courts on Saturday, March 23 at 12:30 PM as they host the Anderson Ravens in an HCAC contest. The match will take place indoors at the Terre Haute Tennis & Pickleball Club.
ROSE-HULMANÂ NOTES:
* Rose-Hulman comes in at 7-4 overall and 7-2 against Division III opponents on the season.
* The Fightin' Engineers picked up the 9-0 win in their first HCAC match of the season against Manchester last Saturday, and they picked up their second HCAC win 8-1 over Hanover.
* Rose-Hulman finished their spring trip at 2-2 overall with wins over Alma and Wartburg and losses to Davenport and Warner.
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Grant Paradowski leads the Fightin' Engineers in singles wins this season at 12-5. The freshman duo ofÂ
Ervin Perkowski has also played lights out with 8 singles wins this season.
* Perkowski also paces the team in doubles wins this season with ten.
Chris Lian and Paradowski have added eight doubles wins.
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Owen Reynolds is the reigning HCAC Player of the Week with a pair of wins in the 8-1 victory over Hanover.
* Rose-Hulman had its streak of seven consecutive HCAC Championships and NCAA Tournament appearances snapped last year after falling in the HCAC Semifinals. They finished the 2022-23 season at 10-10 with a 4-2 record in the HCAC.
* The Fightin' Engineers will return to the court on Thursday, April 4 as they travel to Marian (IN) at 3 PM.
ANDERSON NOTES:
* Anderson comes in at 7-4 overall and 0-0 in the HCAC.
* The Ravens won all four matches in the fall season against Concordia-Chicago, Elmhurst, Principia, and Webster.
* Anderson has dropped two of their last three matches with losses to Loras and Ohio Northern in Florida.
* The Ravens will battle Trine on Thursday before coming to Terre Haute on Saturday.
* Arturo Mendoza leads the Ravens with eight singles win on the season. Cory Evans, Martin Suarez, and Dylan Lemon have each added seven singles wins.
* Lemon and Suarez lead the team in doubles wins with 10 and 9 on the year.
* Anderson will return to action on Sunday as they host the Wittenberg Tigers for their third match in four days.
SERIES HISTORY:
* Rose-Hulman leads the all-time series 26-1 over the Ravens including 24 consecutive wins.
* The Fightin' Engineers have not lost to Anderson in the last 27 years.
* The Ravens' lone win in the series came 5-4 in 1997.
* Last season's 6-3 win for Rose-Hulman was the closest match in the last ten years with the last time Anderson won three matches being back in 2013. They have only done this four times in the 27 all-time meetings.