Hoosiers win, lose in Michigan

In the last two Big Ten match of the season, sophomore Lachlan Ferguson picked up his third and fourth straight win. Yet, the Hoosiers won only one match.

Collecting another Big Ten win, No. 53 IU beat Michigan State, 5-2 on Saturday. The No. 76 doubles tandem of sophomore Santiago Gruter and Jeremy Langer took down more than the No. 79 doubles team.

Winning the doubles point with their 8-6 match, Gruter and Langer also helped the Hoosiers score, winning in singles in straight sets.

Freshman Will Kendall and No. 114 sophomore Lachlan Ferguson also beat their Spartans in straight sets.

“We lost the last two matches that were on,” Ferguson said. “It’s always hard to win away from but it would have been better if we could have gotten the 7-0 result.”

Ferguson’s success continued over to Sunday’s match when the Hoosiers took on No. 48 Michigan. The Hoosier’s lost 6-1 to the Wolverines.

Senior Peter Antons and freshman Maxime Armengaud picked up their second win of the weekend, but it was not enough for the doubles point.

Ferguson downed his fifth ranked opponent, for his sixth Big Ten win, beating No. 94 Jason Jung, 7-5 6-4.

“I just go into all my matches with the belief that I’m as good as any of the guys I’m going to be playing,” Ferguson said. “The more ranked players that I’ve beat the more strong that belief becomes for myself which has a huge impact, especially late in the match.”