Freshmen Lead Owls to Opening Win in C-USA Tournament

Friday, April 20

Houston, Texas

3:00 PM

Florida Atlantic

UTSA

4/20/2018 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis

Box Score

April 20, 2018

Final Stats

HOUSTON, Texas -- The Florida Atlantic University men's tennis team beat UTSA 4-2 in the opening round of the 2018 Conference USA Tournament on Friday, giving the Owls their first-ever C-USA Tournament win.

The Owls (18-9) move on to face Middle Tennessee Saturday at 1 p.m. ET
After FAU dropped the first doubles match, the freshman duo of Jason Legall and Ignacio Garcia beat Kai Breitbach and Joao Ceolin 6-3
Arthur Stefani and Anthony Schohn then won the point for the Owls in their 6-3 victory over Javier Gonzalez and Patrick Poestinger
Legall continued to shine in his 6-3, 6-3 win against Gabriel Bugiga in No. 2 singles
Gabriel Sidney was upset 6-2, 6-4 by Juri Reckow as UTSA got on the board in the No.3 spot
Garcia then knocked off Gonzalez 6-3, 6-2 to extend the advantage once more for the Owls
The Roadrunners didn't go down without a fight as Ceolin topped Stefani 6-2, 6-4
Freshman Thomas Bugeaud sealed the match for FAU in a 6-4, 6-1 win against Poestinger

"Shout out to Jason, Nachi, Thomas, and Anthony for playing great tennis and leading the way to a great team victory over a very good UTSA team," FAU Head Coach Ricardo Gonzalez said. "We need to improve in certain areas of our games at every spot if we want to be competitive tomorrow. MTSU is a very good team who took it to us earlier this year. They are well coached and I am sure they will come back strong. Our guys are hungry to get another opportunity on them."