The men's tennis team finished their weekend of conference matches in Memphis by defeating both Colorado College (5-2) and Hendrix College (5-1) on Saturday night. For the second straight week, the Petrels won three of four SCAC matches on the road.

Against Colorado, the two teams began with singles play where Oglethorpe scored wins from Felix Mann (6-4, 6-2), Alex Biffle (6-2, 6-0), Bryan Bailey (6-3, 6-2) and Tim Tanko (6-4, 6-4). Lawrence Sweatman (6-1, 6-2) and Brad White (6-3, 7-6) were defeated in their singles matches.

In doubles, the Petrels earned the game deciding point at number three with Bailey and Sweatman (8-5) combining to seal the match. The Petrels led in the other two doubles matches that went uncompleted.

Against Hendrix, Oglethorpe began the match by winning two of three doubles points to set up the win. Biffle-Mann (8-6) and Bailey-Sweatman (8-2) scored those two points while White-Shreve (8-1) fell following an injury to White.

In the singles, the Petrels scored the match winning points at No.'s one, two and three on the strength of victories by Mann (6-4, 6-2), Biffle (6-0, 6-3) and Bailey (6-0, 6-0). The other singles matches went unfinished.

The Netters are now 15-8 on the season and will wrap up the regular season with a Senior Day match versus Washington and Lee on Monday at 3:00 p.m.