INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. \u2013 The Ball State men’s tennis team (4-3) orchestrated a stunning comeback Sunday afternoon, overcoming an early deficit to defeat in-state rival Butler(3-5) \u00a04-3 at the IRC Dean Road indoor facility.<\/p>\n
“Gutty, Gritty come back for the Cardinals,” Ball State head men’s tennis coach Gene Orlando<\/a> said. “Great bounce back win after a tough loss yesterday.”<\/p>\n Trailing late in the match, the Cardinals (4-3) relied on gritty three-set performances in the final singles slots to secure the road win and bounce back from a narrow loss just 24 hours prior to Cleveland State. Not all the doubles competition was lost as Jenson Bicanic<\/a> alongside Broc Fletcher<\/a> managed to take down Siddhartha Lama and Arnesh Singh 6-4 at the third slot today.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ball State quickly leveled the score when Jacks Lancaster<\/a> dominated at the No. 1 singles position, dispatching Nicolas Arts 6-4, 6-4. Drew Hayward<\/a>, Jeremy Millette and Fletcher all took their respective opponents to three sets. But it was Millette who would be the decider of the Cardinals fate today. Milette took a nail biting first frame 7-6 (6) against Butler’s No. 4 singles player, Lama. Milette then dropped the second 6-1 before clinching match point in the third by a 6-4 decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Ball State men’s tennis team returns to Indianapolis for its next match as the Cardinals take on IU Indy on Friday at 1 pm ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. \u2013 The Ball State men’s tennis team (4-3) orchestrated a stunning comeback Sunday afternoon, overcoming an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-462936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}