HILTON HEAD, S.C. - Chris Harrison, Quinn Jennings, and Alex Abbuhl provided two-win efforts as the Elmhurst men's tennis team defeated Bethel College (Kan.) 7-2.

The Bluejays (3-2, 1-0 CCIW) won two of the three doubles matches and five of the six singles matches. 
 

Quinn Jennings and Alex Abbuhl put the Bluejays on the board with an 8-1 victory at No. 3 over Jenson Kingsley and Tyler Shima. The Threshers evened the match when Chris Soosalu and Davian Lightbourne defeated Matt Kulma and Ricardo Franco 8-4 at No. 2. The Bluejays took a 2-1 advantage when Luke Tanaka and Chris Harrison pulled out an 8-6 win over Logan Palenske and Jesse Voth-Gaeddert. 
 

Early Elmhurst wins at 4-6 singles clinched the match. Abbuhl took out Lightbourne at No. 4 6-1, 6-1 and Franco quickly added a 6-0, 6-1 victory at No. 6 to put Elmhurst up 4-1. Matt Kulma clinched the match for the Bluejays by defeating Kingsley 6-4, 6-1. The Threshers scored their second point when Palenske beat Tanaka 6-2, 6-1 at No. 1. Elmhurst closed out the contest by winning two close matches. Jennings came back from a set down to defeat Soosalu in a third set 10-point tiebreaker (6-7, 6-2, 10-5) at No. 3. At No. 2, Chris Harrison used one break in each set to come out victorious. Leading 7-5, 4-4, Harrison broke and held to finish off the 7-2 Elmhurst win. 

The Bluejays close out their spring trip with a pair of matches tomorrow. They face UW-Oshkosh at 11:30 a.m. and undefeated Carleton College at 3:00 p.m.