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No. 3 Ohio State Begins Season with 7-0 Win vs. Butler – Ohio State Buckeyes
1/18/2012 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
Jan. 18, 2012
COLUMBUS, Ohio– Behind straight-set singles victories by all six Buckeye starters, the No. 3 Ohio State men’s tennis team downed Butler, 7-0, Wednesday afternoon at the Varsity Tennis Center to begin the 2012 campaign. The Buckeyes will host Xavier at 6 p.m. Wednesday night to wrap up their annual season-opening doubleheader vs. the two programs.
This is the sixth-consecutive season the Buckeyes have hosted Butler and Xavier in their season opener. Ohio State has gone a perfect 10-0 in the previous five doubleheaders and has not yielded a point to either team.
Head coach Ty Tucker now improves to 25-0 on opening day and the Scarlet and Gray are 13-0 all-time vs. the Bulldogs.
Redshirt freshman Hunter Callahan, a native of Lower Gwynedd, Pa., was the first Buckeye off the courts in singles play after he defeated Zach Ervin 6-2, 6-0 at No. 4. Ille Van Engelen, a sophomore who hails from Eindhoven, Netherlands, only surrendered two points in his 6-1, 6-1 victory over Stephen McLoughlin at No. 3 singles. Grafton, Wis., native and redshirt sophomore Nelson Vick handed Tommy Marx a 6-2, 6-0 loss at No. 2 before Kevin Metka, a redshirt freshman from Worthington, Ohio, downed Pulok Bhattacharya 6-2, 6-4 at the No. 6 position. Junior Connor Smith, a transfer from Florida State, who is from Tampa, Fla., won 6-2, 6-2 vs. Billy Weldon. Peter Kobelt, a redshirt sophomore out of New Albany, Ohio, concluded the match at No. 1 singles with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Austin Woldmoe.
Ohio State began the morning sweeping the doubles matches, including an 8-1 victory by Kobelt and Smith over Marx and McLoughlin at No. 2. Van Engelen and redshirt junior Devin McCarthy followed with an 8-2 win vs. Woldmoe and Weldon at the top spot. At No. 3 doubles, senior Steven Williams and Metka concluded doubles play with an 8-5 win against Ervin and Sam O’Neill.
No. 3 Ohio State 7, Butler 0
Jan. 18, 2012
Varsity Tennis Center
Columbus, Ohio
Singles competition
1. Peter Kobelt (OSU) def. Austin Woldmoe (BUTLER) 6-1, 6-3
2. Nelson Vick (OSU) def. Tommy Marx (BUTLER) 6-2, 6-0
3. No. 116 Ille Van Engelen (OSU) def. Stephen McLoughlin (BUTLER) 6-1, 6-1
4. Hunter Callahan (OSU) def. Zach Ervin (BUTLER) 6-2, 6-0
5. No. 123 Connor Smith (OSU) def. Billy Weldon (BUTLER) 6-2, 6-2
6. Kevin Metka (OSU) def. Pulok Bhattacharya (BUTLER) 6-2, 6-4
Doubles competition
1. No. 15 Ille Van Engelen/Devin McCarthy (OSU) def. Austin Woldmoe/Billy Weldon (BUTLER) 8-2
2. Peter Kobelt/Connor Smith (OSU) def. Tommy Marx/Stephen McLoughlin (BUTLER) 8-1
3. Steven Williams/Kevin Metka (OSU) def. Zach Ervin/Sam O’Neill (BUTLER) 8-5
Match Notes:
Butler 0-1 Ohio State 1-0; National ranking No. 3
Order of finish: Doubles (2,1,3);
Singles (4,3,2,6,5,1)
Official: Vince Solomon Time-2:30
