BUFFALO, N.Y./TOLEDO, Ohio -- The Western Michigan men's tennis team split road matches to open Mid-American Conference play over the weekend, falling at Buffalo, 6-1, on Friday and winning, 5-2, at Toledo on Sunday. 

WMU 1, UB 6
The Broncos dropped the doubles points to the Bulls in Friday's loss. WMU's Tim Riedel and Drew Evans pressed the advantage after an early 6-1 win at No. 2 over Michael Malkin and Onder Balci. Buffalo responded with wins at No. 3 and a tie-breaker win at No. 1 to take the point. 

Junior Ashton Adesoro picked up the lone point for the Broncos in singles play, defeating Theodoris Mistakos 6-4, 6-3 at No. 1

WMU 5, UT 2
Western Michigan (8-8, 1-1 MAC) responded to Friday's loss with the 5-2 win over the Rockets on Sunday. This time, the Broncos took the doubles point. Riedel and Evans picked up their second win of the weekend, this time defeating Alejandro Gonzalez and Joshua Mackey at No. 3, 6-3. Oscar Corwin and Alex Antonopoulos secured the point with a 6-4 win at No. 1 over Cole Cozens and Charlie Snow. 

UT tied it up in singles with a win at No. 3 by Lucas Britez, but the Broncos retook the lead after Adesoro took down Poonthong Komolpisut at No. 1, 6-3, 6-2. The Rockets bounced back to tie it up at 2-2 with a win by Hanamichi Carvajal over Riedel at No. 2, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (10-8). Jack Davison pushed the lead back into WMU's favor with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 win at No. 6 over Pannawat Suttisomboon. The match-winning point came courtesy of Corwin at No. 4 with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over Cozens. The fifth and final point was secured by Chen-Hui Ho, with a 6-3, 7-6 (7-1) win at No. 5 over Olivero. 

The Broncos are back home hosting Northern Illinois on Thursday at 1 p.m. and then welcome UIC on Saturday at 1 p.m. Admission is free.