Sophomore Owen Dyer won his singles match as the Muhlenberg men's tennis team opened Centennial Conference play with a 6-1 loss at Swarthmore, the eighth-ranked team in Division III.

Dyer (pictured above) won 7-5 in the third set at No. 2 against an opponent whose lone previous singles loss was against a player from Bowdoin, another team ranked in the top 10.

Swarthmore 6, Muhlenberg 1
doubles
Kai Chen and Andres Fente (S) def. Matt Miller and Max Gofton, 6-1
Nicholas Choo and Max Pogorelov (S) def. Owen Dyer and William Rose, 6-3
Dylan Hayes Gilbert and Kevin Jiang (S) def. Isaac Shulman and Gabriel Tamarkin, 6-1

singles
Chen (S) def. Miller, 6-1, 6-0
Dyer (M) def. Choo, 6-3, 1-6, 7-5
Hayes Gilbert (S) def. Gofton, 6-0, 6-0
Fente (S) def. Rose, 6-0, 6-0
Jiang (S) def. Shulman, 6-0, 6-0
Pogorelov (S) def. Josh Simon, 8-3