The Augustana men's tennis team is now 11-10 overall and 3-2 in the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin after splitting a pair of road matches over the weekend of April 18-19. The Vikings lost to Carthage on Saturday, April 18 in Kenosha, Wisconsin by a score of 8-1 but bounced back nicely on Sunday, April 19 with a 9-0 whitewash of North Central in Naperville, Illinois.
 
Head coach Jon Miedema's team will play at Millikin in Decatur, Illinois on Tuesday, April 21 at 4:00 p.m. in the final CCIW match of the season. Augustana will  then head up the Mississippi River the next day (Wednesday, April 22) to take on Ashford in a non-conference match at 4:00 p.m. The regular season will conclude on Sunday, April 26 with a battle against Luther at 2:00 p.m. in Decorah, Iowa.
 
04/19/15 – AUGUSTANA 9, NORTH CENTRAL 0
 
Less than 24 hours after dropping an 8-1 decision at Carthage, the Vikings bounced back nicely with an impressive 9-0 victory at North Central to move to 11-10 overall and 3-2 in CCIW play.
 
The doubles action went Augustana's way and provided the visitors with an early 3-0 advantage. Senior Lawrence Palmer (Schiller International School; El Prat de Llobregat, Spain) and junior Harald Olsson (Hersby Gymnasium, Stockholm, Sweden) won at number one doubles by a score of 8-4 over Oliver Moews and Aleksandar Vasic. The number two team of freshman Eric Pohl (Fremd HS, Palatine, Ill.) and junior Austin Schoeck (Alleman Catholic HS, Rock Island, Ill.) beat Connor Sass and Ryan Doeckel 8-2. The number three team of junior Patrick Lenz (Villanova Prep, Ojai, Calif.) and sophomore Jonathon Elsey (York HS, Elmhurst, Ill.) defeated Adam Winters and Kevin Davenport 8-1.
 
Sophomore Nicholas Prabhakar (Rockford Lutheran HS, Belvidere, Ill.) took three sets at number six before putting away Tyler Ringle 6-4; 2-6; 10-6. Pohl also went three sets at number two before beating Sass 6-0; 6-8; 10-4.
 
Palmer beat Moews 6-0; 6-2 at number one and Lenz beat Vasic 6-0; 6-2 at number three. Schoeck took care of Winters 7-5; 6-1 at number four and Elsey beat Doeckel 6-1; 6-0 at number five.
 
04/18/15 – CARTHAGE 8, AUGUSTANA 1
 
The lone victory in this match came at number three doubles where Lenz and Elsey defeated Ryan Jump and Alex Ferruzzi 8-4.
 
Palmer and Olsson lost to Pawel Jaworski and Jordan Verbauwhede 6-8 at number one doubles and Pohl and Schoeck dropped a 5-8 decision at number two to Alex Boomgarden and Chris Conley.
 
Because of some injury problems Miedema was forced to juggle his singles lineup a bit for this match.
 
Pohl lost to Jaworski 3-6; 3-6 at number one and Lenz fell 6-7; 2-6 at number two to Boomgarden. Schoeck lost 4-6; 0-6 at number three to Jump and Olsson went three sets at number four before falling to Verbauwhede 2-6; 6-3; 2-6. Elsey lost 0-6; 1-6 at number five to Conley and Prabhakar dropped a 3-6; 0-6 decision to Ferruzzi at number six.