Kansas Wesleyan Men's Tennis took Thursday's match with Sterling down to the wire but the Coyotes came up short in heartbreaking fashion 4-3 to the Warriors at Salina Tennis Alliance.
 
The loss ends Wesleyan's season with a 7-12 overall record and a 4-8 record in KCAC play.
 
Sterling won the doubles point by winning two of the three matches in tiebreaks.
 
KWU got its doubles win as Jack Hanson and Jacob Phelps beat I.  Curtis-Kaduma and Pedro Felipoff 6-1.
 
Sterling got its wins as Fernando Vargas Sanchez and Kazuki Fukushima beat Adam Hanson and Paul Jittawait 7-6; and Adam King and Rubem Bogomoltz beat Gavin Chavez and Benjamin Cechak 7-6.
 
The teams split the singles matches 3-3.
 
KWU got wins as Alex Sherer beat Felipoff 6-3, 4-6, 6-4; Phelps beat King on a retirement; and Jack Hanson beat Cassidy Kelly 6-1, 6-0.
 
Sterling got wins as Vargas Sanchez beat Jittawait 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; Fukushima beat Adam Hanson 6-4, 7-6; and Bogomoltz beat Chavez 6-2, 6-2.