ORANGE, Calif. – The University of Redlands Men's Tennis team put together a dominant performance Saturday morning on the road beating No. 36 Chapman University 5-2. 

The Bulldogs found themselves down after doubles picking up just one across the three lines.  The win came at No. 2 from MJ Abarca (San Diego, CA) and Cooper Whittington (Lake Oswego, OR) who won 6-1.  The other two matches would go to the Panthers.  Vitomir

Petcov (Portland, OR) and Jack Fanshawe (Brisbane, Australia) fell 6-2 at the top spot and Gustavo Marcanth (Redondo Beach, CA) and Dominic Anderson (Brisbane, Australia) would drop 6-3 at No. 3 giving CU an early point.

In singles the Bulldogs flipped the script taking five of six matches highlighted by Anderson who would take down the No. 37 ranked player in Division III Caleb Wilkins 6-4, 6-3.

Petcov followed in straight sets at No. 3 winning 7-5, 6-2.  Josh Davydov (Bellevue, WA) subbed into singles at No. 4 and would win 6-4, 7-5.  Chapman picked up their second point and lone tally in singles at No. 2 as Marcanth would fall 6-2, 6-4.  But CU could not build off of that as Jack Hinkle (Bountiful, UT) would grind out a three-setter 6-1, 3-6, 7-5 at No. 5.  Fanshawe would take the clinch at No. 6 pulling out a 7-6 (7), 7-6 (9) victory in dramatic fashion.            

Redlands returns to the courts on Tuesday, April 8 when they host No. 13 Pomona-Pitzer in a huge SCIAC showdown beginning at 5:00pm on the Verdieck Tennis Courts.