Minneapolis, Minn.- No.5 Denison men's tennis bounced back from its semifinal loss to beat No. 4 Case Western Reserve University for third place at the ITA Indoor Team Championships. The Big Red improved to 3-1 for the season, while the Spartans dropped to 7-4.

Ethan Green, Jacob Patterson and Kael Shah led Denison in a hard fought win over Case in its third match of the weekend. All three finished the afternoon 2-0, with Green and Shah working together to defeat the Spartans' Casey Hishinuma and Anmay Devara 6-1 on court one doubles and Patterson along with Colin Gramley securing a 6-5 victory over Cases' Derek Shiffer and Justin Prochnow, on court two. In singles matches Green and Shah dug deep and won their three set matches, while Patterson defeated his opponent George Kosseifi quickly beating him 6-3, 6-3.

Head Coach David Schilling said, " I am really happy for the guys. Case has really gotten the best of us over the past five years so this was a very emotional win for the team. Case  is one of the teams that we respect the most and they have achieved amazing things over the past five to six years. This is a great win for the program." Schilling also shared his thoughts on the weekend as a whole, "It was a good weekend overall. To go two and one in our first appearance at the ITA National Indoor Championships is a good performance. However, we have to get back to Granville and we have a lot of work to do to become the kind of team that we wanna be."

Up Next
The Big Red travel to Pennsylvania for two matches on March 1, #5 Denison will take on #10 Swarthmore College at 10 a.m., and then travel to #39 Haverford College for a 4 p.m. match.

Complete results below.
Singles competition
1. Ethan Green (DENM) def. Ajay Mahenthiran (CWRUM) 3-6, 6-3, 5-4
2. Jacob Patterson (DENM) def. George Kosseifi (CWRUM) 6-3, 6-3 
3. Kael Shah (DENM) def. Anmay Devaraj (CWRUM) 3-6, 6-2, 6-2
4. Nick Meyers (DENM) def. Matthew Plunkett (CWRUM) 6-3, 7-5
5. Casey Hishinuma (CWRUM) def. Andreas Chapides (DENM) 6-1, 6-4 
6. Garza Salazar (CWRUM) def. Mason Conlin (DENM) 6-4, 7-5

Doubles competition
1. Ethan Green/ Kael Shah  (DENM) def. Casey Hishinuma/ Anmay Devaraj (CWRUM) 6-1
2. Colin Gramley/ Jacob Patterson (DENM) def. Derek Shiffer/ Justin Prochnow (CWRUM) 6-4
3. Trey Lambright/ Rohan Bhat (CWRUM) def. Andreas Chapides/ Nick Meyers (DENM) 6-3

Match Notes:
Case Western Reserve University 7-4, National ranking #4
Denison University 3-1, National ranking #5
Order of finish: Doubles 1,3,2 ; Singles 5,2,6,4,3