Nebraska Wesleyan men's tennis blanked Concordia University 9-0 on Tuesday night (April 15) in Seward, Neb, as the Prairie Wolves handed the Bulldogs their first Great Plains Athletic Conference loss of the year.

NWU improves to 8-7 overall and 2-1 in GPAC, while Concordia falls to 8-6, 3-1 in conference play.  Hastings is now the lone undefeated team in men's conference tennis.

Nebraska Wesleyan won 8-5 at both No. 1 and No. 2 doubles and got an 8-3 win at No. 3 doubles to sweep the Bulldogs in doubles play.

The Prairie Wolves then won all six singles matches in straight sets.  The closes match of the day came at No. 2 singles.  NWU's Gui Plentz defeated Javier Moreno from Concordia in scores of 7-6 (7-0), 7-6 (8-0) for the most highly contested singles competition.

NWU had little trouble in the rest of the singles matches including No. 3 singles where Zack Hicks blanked his opponent, Patriciio Esquivel, 6-0, 6-0.

Nebraska Wesleyan has just two GPAC regular season matches remaining, facing Morningside on April 26 then taking on Doane in a makeup match on April 28.

Nebraska Wesleyan 9, Concordia 0

Singles competition
1. Asnis, Lucas (NWUM) def. Wingfield, Nathan (CNC) 6-2, 6-2
2. Plentz, Gui (NWUM) def. Moreno, Javier (CNC) 7-6 (7-0), 7-6 (8-0)
3. Hicks, Zack (NWUM) def. Esquivel, Patricio (CNC) 6-0, 6-0
4. Torti, Rene (NWUM) def. Kaldahl, Joel (CNC) 6-2, 6-0
5. Milburn, Trevor (NWUM) def. McCartney, Mike (CNC) 6-4, 7-5
6. Shimerda, Seth (NWUM) def. Yox, Philip (CNC) 7-5, 6-1

Doubles competition
1. Asnis, Lucas/Plentz, Gui (NWUM) def. Wingfield, Nathan/Kaldahl, Joel (CNC) 8-5
2. Torti, Rene/Milburn, Trevor (NWUM) def. Moreno, Javier/Esquivel, Patricio (CNC) 8-5
3. Hicks, Zack/Shimerda, Seth (NWUM) def. McCartney, Mike/Douglas, Jonathan (CNC) 8-3