MATCH PREVIEW

• Millersville hosts Mercyhurst on Friday and Edinboro on Saturday for two key PSAC matches. Millersville is 1-1 in league play while Mercyhurst and Edinboro are leading the standings with perfect 3-0 records. Mercyhurst is ranked No. 4 in the Oracle/ITA Atlantic Region rankings, and Edinboro is ranked No. 3 regionally and No. 4 in the nation. 
• Millersville may be 1-4, but it is oh-so-close to being undefeated. Three of Millersville's losses have come by a 4-3 score--the difference of one match in each dual. In each of those three losses, one of the singles defeats came in three sets with a tiebreaker. 
• Carlos Martinez-Lucas has been outstanding at No. 1 singles, posting a 4-1 record with a four-match winning streak. He's also paired with Frank Yanni for a 4-1 doubles record. He is the defending PSAC Athlete of the Week. 
• Freshman Zach Pernia has been a surprise at No. 6 singles, going 4-1 so far. He started the season with four-straight wins. 

SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS

• Mercyhurst has won three consecutive matches after playing a challenging non-conference slate that featured matches against the No. 2 (Charleston) and No. 3 (Fairmont State) ranked teams in the Atlantic Region and three matches against Division I opponents. Mercyhurst has won their three PSAC matches by a combined 19-2 score. Unai Amilleta Gonzalez is 8-0, winning four matches at both No. 1 and No. 2 singles. Gonzalez and Arseniy Sklyarov have the team's most successful doubles pairing with a 6-1 record (3-0 PSAC) at No. 2 doubles. 
• Edinboro, now 6-3, is on a roll with five consecutive wins, and the team is fresh off a 5-2 upset of Fairmont State. Edinboro won five of the six singles matches. Takahiro Inoue is an impressive 5-1 at No. 1 singles while Ruben Acuna is 5-0 at No. 2 singles. Thibault Dorval is 7-1 in the No. 3 spot, Gustavo Martins is 6-0 in the No. 4 spot, and the team has not lost a match at No. 5 singles this season. While Edinboro is 40-12 in singles matches, they are not quite as successful in doubles, posting a 15-12 record. 

SERIES HISTORY

• Millersville and Mercyhurst first met in 1983 but Mercyhurst joined the PSAC in 2008, and since then, the Lakers have won nine of 13 meetings, including seven in a row. During that seven-match winning streak, Millersville has scored just two points (8-1 in 2018 and 6-1 in 2019). Millersville's last win came at home in 2012 by a 7-2 score. 
• The series between Millersville and Edinboro goes back to 1982. Edinboro has won eight meetings in a row, and it was the team that knocked Millersville out of the 2019 PSAC Tournament by a 4-0 score. In the 2019 regular season, Edinboro won 5-2. Millersville's last win came in the 2012 PSAC Tournament.