ORLANDO, Fla. — The University of South Alabama men's tennis team fell 1-4 to the No. 33 Central Florida Knights on Monday afternoon on the USTA National Campus Courts in Orlando, Fla. 

The Jaguars lost the doubles point to UCF. Maxime Lapraille and Louis Delcour fell, 6-3 to their opponents on court three. The No. 19 ranked duo of Loic Cloes and Clement Marzol dropped their match on court one, 7-5 to the Knights. Sacha Modica and Sam Serrano were up 6-5 on their opponents but the match went unfinished after UCF claimed the point. 

UCF got off to a fast start on the singles side. After Delcour fell, 6-4, 6-2 to his foe on court six, Modica lost to the No. 18 ranked player in the country, Gabriel Decamps, in straight sets to give UCF a 3-0 advantage. Cloes downed his opponent in three sets for the Jaguars win on court three. Serrano fell to Trey Hilderbrand of UCF to give the Knights the match. Clement Marzol defeated the No. 122 ranked player, Alan Rubio, in the first set of their singles match, fell in the second set, and the match went unfinished on the afternoon. 

South Alabama wrapped up its non-conference slate of the spring schedule with a 10-5 mark. 

DOUBLES
(1) Pavel/Hilderbrand def. No. 19 Cloes/Marzol, 7-5
(2) Decamps/Mazzuchi vs. Modica/Serrano, 5-6, unfinished. 
(3) Alencar/Sokolovskiy def. Lapraille/Delcour, 6-3. 
Order of finish: 3,1

SINGLES
(1) No. 18 Gabriel Decamps def. Sacha Modica, 6-1, 6-3
(2) No. 122 Alan Rubio vs. Clement Marzol, 6-7 (6-8), 6-3, unfinished. 
(3) Loic Cloes def. Bogdan Pavel, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1
(4) Trey Hilderbrand def. Sam Serrano, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
(5) Juan Pablo Mazzuchi vs. Maxime Lapraille, 6-4, 6-6 (3-2), unfinished. 
(6) Mikhail Sokoloskiy def. Louis Delcour, 6-4, 6-2. 
Order of finish:6,1,3,4

NOTES
- The match this afternoon was moved indoors due to rain while UCF was leading 3-0 after a 30 minute rain delay at the 2:28 mark of the contest. 
- Cloes is on a seven-match winning streak against his singles opponents. He last dropped a match on Feb. 16 at Belmont and is now 10-4 on the spring season. 

UP NEXT
The Jaguars return home to the Bruce David Lubel Memorial Tennis courts to open up Sun Belt Conference with two weekend matches. South Alabama will take on Appalachian State Saturday, March 23 at 10 a.m. and Coastal Carolina on Sunday, March 24 at 11 a.m. 

QUOTES
Head Coach Nick Brochu
"Rough match today, we had to deal with a few things. One, UCF is a great team, very well coached. They're a top 35 team in the country, so wasn't easy. Two, it was our third match of the trip, third in four days, we had to deal with some aches and pains, but the guys fought. I like the way they fought through it. We didn't have anyone slowing down so that was good to see. It was mind over body today. Unfortunately we had a bad injury, Clement hurt his wrist pretty bad. He was fighting through the pain which was impressive." 

"What really hurt us today was the doubles. We were in position to win and it hurt to drop it. Dropping the doubles point put us behind because we lost two big singles early. After that it was a steep hill. I feel if we would have won at number four we would have been able to make it a great comeback, push through and fight for the comeback. Overall great fight, tough trip, but I think we get a lot of positives out of this trip." 

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