Springfield, Mo. - The Southwest Baptist University men's tennis team defeated Lindenwood in the third place match at the MIAA Men's Tennis Championship Tournament on Sunday afternoon. With the victory, Southwest Baptist improves to 12-7 on the season.

Coming out of doubles play, the Bearcats trailed the Lions 2-1 with Kristof Kinal/Sherif Abohabaga picking up the lone doubles victory at #1. The Bearcats then went on to take four singles matches with Kinal, Abohabaga, Yannick Doering, and Brad Cicek all picking up wins to give SBU the 5-4 team victory.

#28 Southwest Baptist 5, Lindenwood 4

Singles
1. #36 Kristof Kinal (SBU) def. Filip Bogic (LWU) 6-4, 6-1
2. Sherif Abohabaga (SBU) def. Yoshikazu Ysa (LWU) 6-4, 6-4
3. Naoufal El Idrissi (LWU) def. Torben Semrau (SBU) 7-6, 6-4
4. Yannick Doering (SBU) def. Johannes Rabenhorst (LWU) 7-6, 5-7, 6-3
5. Nicholas Bruenger (LWU) def. Alex Belote (SBU) 7-5, 6-0
6. Brad Cicek (SBU) def. Slobodan Bavrlic (LWU) 7-6, 2-6, 6-2

Doubles
1. Kinal/Abohabaga (SBU) def. Ysa/Rabenhorst (LWU) 8-3
2. El Idrissi/Bogic (LWU) def. Semrau/Doering (SBU) 8-4
3. Bruenger/Bavrlic (LWU) def. Belote/Cicek (SBU) 8-6