Box Score
MOBILE, Ala. – The University of South Alabama men's tennis team (7-5) suffered their first home-loss of the season, 4-3, to UNC-Wilmington Wednesday.
 
DOUBLES
- Sacha Modica and Olivier Gingras fell to UNCW's Michael Morphy and Andres Torres, 6-0, on court 2 to start the match.
- Loic Cloes and Clement Marzol then took their match on court 1 over Ignasi de Rueda and Raphael Calzi 6-4.
- Santiago di Loreto and Lucas Gonzalez fell in a tight one as UNCW took the doubles point on court 3 with Agustin Savarino and Michael Copeland winning 7-6 (7-2).

SINGLES
- The Jags fell in the first two singles matches with Gonzalez falling to Daniel Groom 6-1, 6-2 on court 6 and Max Lapraille falling to Morphy 6-3, 6-2 on court 5.
- Modica picked up South Alabama's first singles victory of the day with a 6-3, 7-6 won against de Rueda on court 3.
- UNCW clinched the match with Copeland defeating Gingras 6-3, 6-4 on court 4.
- Modica, Gingras and Gonzalez were all leading their matches before the Jags sealed up the championship.
- The teams decided to play out the last two singles matches seeing USA pick up victories by Cloes over Savarino 6-4, 7-5 on court 2 and Marzol winning in a super-tiebreak, 6-4, 4-6, 10-7 on court 1 over Torres.

THEY SAID IT
Head Coach Nick Brochu
Opening statement: "I think doubles was ours. We just came back from H.E.B. with some awesome doubles over there and we were very confident. We were cruising in number one and cruising in number three. It looked like it was in the bag, but in tennis you don't play on the clock. You can't run out the clock so you have to finish the match. At number three, we got tight and we got nervous. Wilmington stepped up and we lost in the tiebreaker. We gave it to them. That's one point, but it's a big point because of momentum. You then go into singles needing four out of six which is doable, but it's tough against a good Wilmington team. Then we got into position to probably do that. We were up on three courts and it looked like we were going turn it around on court four, but it didn't workout."
 
On the team's performance today: "Today we weren't there. Wilmington wanted it more than us. We couldn't carry our momentum from winning three matches last weekend into today. I don't know if we were over confident, maybe like a Super Bowl hangover. Wilmington was ready and I don't think we were. I think we are going to learn from this and get ready for this weekend because we have Troy. I know Troy is waiting for us."
 
On positives from three singles wins: "Sacha [Modica] was the first one on the board. Made it 3-1, but one through three we were playing solid. We have to step up below. At H.E.B., the bottom of the lineup stepped up. Today we weren't there. Losing is one thing, but losing in 45 minutes, that's unacceptable. We have to meet, regroup and go back to work tomorrow morning, practice hard and get ready for Troy."

UP NEXT
South Alabama returns to the court Saturday at Troy. The matchup is scheduled to begin at Noon.
 
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