#5 Spartans Open NCAA Play with Second-Spherical Win over ONU

The fifth-ranked Case Western Reserve University Spartans opened up play on the 2026 NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Championship with a 4-1 win over 63rd-ranked Ohio Northern University within the second spherical on Saturday morning on the Medical Mutual Tennis Pavilion in Cleveland.

The Spartans improved to 27-8 general with the win, whereas the Polar Bears ended their marketing campaign with a 14-9 mark.

Up Next

CWRU will advance to the third spherical of the NCAA Division III Championship on Sunday on the Carlton Courts in Cleveland in opposition to the winner of the opposite second-round match between Fifteenth-ranked Mary Washington and Whitman. The match is scheduled for a midday begin.

Stats and Standouts

• The Spartans recovered after the doubles level, profitable every of the 5 singles matches that have been determined and main within the sixth when play was stopped as a result of determination.

• Sophomore Rowan Matorin picked up the straight-set win at no. 5 singles to clinch the match for CWRU.

• Twenty ninth-ranked senior Matthew Plunkett evened the rating at 1-1 with a win at no. 2 singles, whereas junior Santiago Salazar Garza gave the Spartans their first lead of the match along with his straight-set victory at no. 1 singles. Graduate scholar Ansh Shah added a straight-set win at no. 4 singles to place CWRU a victory away from clinching.

• Seniors Anmay Devaraj and Rohan Bhat picked up the one doubles win of the match for the Spartans with a 6-1 victory. Bhat and Devaraj additionally led within the third and sixth singles matches, respectively when play was stopped.

Individual Results

1. Tyler Wood/Dylan Catanese (ONU) def. Bryce Ware/Trey Lambright (CWRU), 7-5
2. Ethan Remy/Aiden Yeager (ONU) def. Rowan Matorin/Santiago Salazar Garza (CWRU), 7-6 (7) *
3. Rohan Bhat/Anmay Devaraj (CWRU) def. Kessler Hackenberger/Noah Ehret (ONU), 6-1

1. Santiago Salazar Garza (CWRU) def. Aiden Yeager (ONU), 6-0, 6-1
2. Matthew Plunkett (CWRU) def. Tyler Wood (ONU), 6-1, 6-1
3. Anmay Devaraj (CWRU) def. Ethan Remy (ONU), 6-0, 5-2, unfinished
4. Ansh Shah (CWRU) def. Dylan Catanese (ONU), 6-0, 6-2
5. Rowan Matorin (CWRU) def. Kessler Hackenberger (ONU), 6-4, 6-4 *
6. Rohan Bhat (CWRU) vs. Nick Miller (ONU), 6-3, 4-2, unfinished

Order of Finish: Doubles (3,1,2); Singles (2,1,4,5) | * signifies clinching win

Clinch Tracker

• Doubles

  
  

  • Bryce Ware/ Trey Lambright (5), Rohan Bhat/ Anmay Devaraj (5), Jon Totorica/ Leon Chen (4), Santiago Salazar Garza/ Derek Shiffer (1), Marko McRae/ Glen Ngo (1), Rohit Jain/ Rowan Matorin (1), Rohit Jain/ Luke Saylor (1), Shay Gupta/ Marko McRae (1), Konrad Kwiatkowski/ Shay Gupta (1), Trey Lambright/ Justin Prochnow (1), Anmay Devaraj/ Bryce Ware (1), Santiago Salazar Garza/ Rowan Matorin (1)

• Singles

  
  

  • Anmay Devaraj (6), JT Bilski (3), Rowan Matorin (3), Rohan Bhat (2), Santiago Salazar Garza (2), Benjamin Fernandez (2), Ethan Jacob (1), Rohit Jain (1), Xander Jhaveri (1), Konrad Kwiatkowski (1), Glen Ngo (1), Nikhil Ramani (1), Ansh Shah (1)

Spartan Notes

• CWRU, making its ninth NCAA Tournament look all-time, improved to 24-7 in postseason play.

• The Spartans gained their final three conferences in opposition to Ohio Northern relationship again to the 2013 season, together with a 2-0 mark in NCAA Tournament matches.

• This is the sixth-straight season that the Spartans have made the third spherical of the NCAA Championship.

• CWRU now stands at 258-103 (.715) in singles play and 109-62 (.637) in doubles matches this season.

• The Spartans improved to 4-3 in matches the place they dropped the doubles level this season.