Big Red Down No. 24 Cowboys

The No. 52 Nebraska men’s tennis team took down No. 24 Oklahoma State on Friday, Feb. 27 at the Sid and Hazel Dillon Tennis Center in Lincoln, Neb. The win against Oklahoma State was Nebraska’s last non-conference home match and first ranked win of the 2026 spring season.  

In doubles play, the Huskers (8-2) battled it out from the start with Joan Torres Espinosa/Jeri Lassila (NEB) winning at No. 3 doubles vs. Haydar Gokpinar/Nicolas Kobelt (OSU), 6-2 to give Nebraska the edge in doubles play. Shortly after, Matt Shearer/Henry Lamchinniah (NEB) took their match at No. 2 doubles in an electric match vs. Alessio Basile/Ian Bracks (OSU), 6-3 to secure the doubles point for the Huskers and give Nebraska the lead 1-0 over the ranked Cowboys. 

The match between Leo Linquet/Colson Wells (NEB) vs. Derek Pham/Charlie Valentine (OSU) at No. 1 doubles was declared unfinished. 

Nebraska started off singles play taking five out of the six first sets. Espinosa was the first to step off the singles court winning his match at No. 6 vs. Gokpinar, 6-3, 6-2. Closely after, Wells dropped his match at No. 2 vs. Kobelt, 4-6, 4-6. At No. 1 singles, Linquet won an electric tiebreaker match, taking his match vs. Basile 6-0, 7-6 [7-5]. 

After the finish of those three matches, courts three, four and five each went to a third set. Lassila’s match was the next match to finish at No. 3 doubles. He dropped his match vs. Pham, 6-3, 2-6, 3-6. 

With Van der Sijs and Lamchinniah being the two courts left, Lamchinniah led the third set the whole way leading 4-0 before Oklahoma State’s Valentine took one game. Lamchinniah answered right back, taking the last game and clinching the match and the upset for Nebraska as  the Huskers complete the upset over No. 24 Oklahoma State, 4-2. 

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This Sunday, March 1, Nebraska men’s tennis will battle Wichita State at the Sheldon Coleman Tennis Complex in Wichita, Kansas, as part of the Huskers' last non-conference match of the season.