Singles sweep helps Owls pick up first win against Penn State

Temple had been waiting for Sunday’s meeting with Penn State all season.

However, the Owls dropped all three doubles matches to start the matchup with their in-state rival and needed four straight singles wins to pull out the win.

“We had been talking about playing Penn State all year,” coach Steve Mauro said. “I told them after the doubles matches that we needed to go out and get it.”

Sophomore Artem Kapshuk, sophomore Florian Mayer, junior Thomas Sevel and freshman Francisco Bohorquez secured singles victories to take down the Nittany Lions.

The victory came just hours after Penn State had defeated Indiana University, which was ranked No. 45 last week by the International Tennis Federation..…