For at least one day, Jackie Jenkins and Josh Axler were connected by much more than a uniform.

In what appeared to be a pseudo-doubles game, the juniors both won their matches during No. 42 NU’s 4-3 home victory against No. 63 Penn State on Sunday. Playing on adjacent courts, their matches were virtually identical. Nearly every time that Jenkins won a point, Axler immediately followed suit, and vice versa.

“We really pumped each other up,” Jenkins said. “We fed off of each other’s points.”

In the No. 3 singles spot, Jenkins defeated Penn State junior Brad Nudell 6-0, 7-6(4) on Court 2, and at No. 5, Axler beat sophomore Roddy Cantey by the same score next door on Court 3. When the NU juniors won a rally at the same time, they would often meet halfway between their courts and high-five each other.

An even stranger occurrence came after the duo dominated the first set. Both men had trouble breaking serve in the second set, forcing them to go into tiebreaks.

“We fell apart at the same time,” Jenkins said. “(Our opponents) started playing better and Josh and I tightened up.”

But Jenkins and Axler held on and combined to win half of the Wildcats’ matches.

NU’s other victories came from two seniors playing their last home matches.