DULUTH, Minn./SUPERIOR, Wis. – The St. Olaf College men's tennis team picked up back-to-back road victories on Friday and Saturday, edging the College of St. Scholastica by a 5-4 margin in Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) play before getting past UW-Superior by a 6-3 score in a non-conference match.

In the first MIAC match between the two programs, St. Olaf (4-4, 2-2 MIAC) used a tiebreaker win at No. 1 singles and a pair of super-tiebreaker victories in singles to defeat St. Scholastica (4-8, 2-4 MIAC) on Friday night at Duluth Indoor Sports Center. The next day, the Oles got two more super-tiebreaker wins in singles to help seal a 6-3 win over UW-Superior (8-5).

Seniors Ethan Bruha, Tony Klagge, and Tim Roback all won both of their singles matches over the weekend, as did the No. 2 doubles tandem of junior Henry Smith and sophomore Max Loesch. Klagge and Roback extended their singles winning streaks to three matches, as did Smith and Loesch in doubles.

St. Olaf heads across town to take on Carleton on Wednesday, April 13 at 4:30 p.m.

St. Olaf 5, St. Scholastica 4 | Box Score

On Friday night, St. Olaf won close matches at No. 1 and No. 2 doubles to take a 2-1 lead into singles and got the singles split it needed to record the win over St. Scholastica.

The Saints got on the board first with a win at No. 3 doubles before the Oles came out on top in the other two doubles matches to grab a slender advantage. Bruha and Roback claimed their match at No. 1 doubles by winning a tiebreaker, 7-3, and Smith and Loesch closed out an 8-6 win at No. 2 doubles to make it 2-1 heading into singles.

Bruha made quick work of his opponent at No. 3 singles, dropping just one game in a 6-0, 6-1 win to stretch St. Olaf's lead to 3-1. St. Scholastica got back within one with a straight-set triumph at No. 2 singles, but Klagge brought the Oles within a point of the team win by rallying from a set down for 1 3-6, 6-3, 1-0 (10-7) victory at No. 4 singles.

The Saints stayed alive with a straight-set win at No. 1 singles before Roback sealed the victory for St. Olaf by coming back from dropping the first set to post a 1-6, 6-2, 1-0 (12-10) win at No. 5 singles. Roback led the super tiebreaker, 8-3, before being forced to hold on late. St. Scholastica won a super tiebreaker of its own at No. 6 singles to account for the 5-4 final.

St. Olaf 6, UW-Superior 3 | Box Score

In just the second-ever meeting between the two programs, St. Olaf defeated UW-Superior for the second-straight season by claiming two points in doubles and four in singles to close out the 2-0 weekend.

Loesch and Smith got the Oles out to a strong start with an 8-4 victory at No. 2 doubles before the teams traded 8-5 wins at No. 1 doubles and No. 3 doubles to leave St. Olaf with a 2-1 advantage. Klagge and Belik earned an 8-5 victory at No. 3 doubles in the final match to conclude for the Oles.

Klagge leveled his singles record at 4-4 by not dropping a game at No. 4 singles to put St. Olaf's third point on the board. Bruha followed with a 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 1-0 (10-4) triumph at No. 3 singles to stretch the Oles' lead to 4-1 before Roback won a pair of tightly-contested sets at No. 5 singles in a 7-5, 7-6 (7-3) victory to lock up the team result.

UW-Superior grabbed a super-tiebreaker win at No. 6 singles and a straight-set victory at No. 2 singles to bring the score to 5-3 before sophomore Lorenzo Cazzamali earned his first-career singles win in a marathon match at No. 1 singles. Cazzamali won a first-set tiebreaker, 7-4, before dropping the second set, 7-5, but regrouped to take the super tiebreaker, 10-7.