The men’s tennis team won their sixth match in a row on Saturday with a 9-0 victory against Brandeis (6-8) before falling to Bates 6-3 yesterday.

The Brandeis contest was the team’s second to last non-conference match of the regular season. Seven of their last eight matches will be against NESCAC opponents. The win against Brandeis improved Bowdoin’s record to 8-1 the season; the loss at Bates, however, leaves them 2-1 in the NESCAC.

The team went into the match knowing that Brandeis was a strong team. Brandeis had just beaten Tufts, a team ranked 23rd in the country, so the Polar Bears believed that they were in for a challenge. 

“We knew that Brandeis was a team that could beat us if we didn’t show up to play,” said Chase Savage ’16.

The Polar Bears took control of the match from the beginning and won all three doubles matches. Luke Trinka ’16 and Luke Turcek ’18 won their first doubles match 8-6, followed by Kyle Wolstencroft ’15 and Gil Roddy ’18 at second doubles, who won 8-4, and Savage and Kyle Wolfe ’18 at third doubles pulling through with an 8-2 win.

During the singles matches, all players dominated. Trinka was victorious at first singles with scores 6-3 and 6-2, followed by second singles Noah Bragg with 6-1 and 6-2, and Wolfe at third singles with 6-2 and 6-1. Savage followed at fourth singles winning 6-2 and 6-2, Wolstencroft at fifth singles winning the closest individual match of the day 7-6 and at 6-3, and Tercek only letting up one game at sixth singles with 6-1 and 6-0.

 Against Bates, one of the stronger doubles teams in New England, the Polar Bears went down 2-1 in doubles after the Bobcats won the first doubles match in a tiebreaker, ultimately falling 6-3. The three wins came from the doubles team of Wolstencroft and Roddy at second doubles, Bragg in second singles and Wolfe at third singles. 

The team has two conference matches this weekend, traveling to Hamilton tomorrow and Amherst on Sunday.

Editor's note: A previous version of this article stated that the doubles win against Bates came from the doubles team of Wolstencroft and Wolfe. The pairing was in fact Wolstencroft and Roddy.