#MTen Duo Oust Top Seed in NCAA Doubles Championship Opening Round

Thursday, May 22

Athens, Ga.

5:30 pm

University of North Florida

NCAA Doubles Championships (Rd of 32)

Photo by: Todd Drexler

#MTen Duo Oust Top Seed in NCAA Doubles Championship Opening Round

5/22/2014 9:19:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: Bridgette Gale, North Florida Athletics

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ATHENS, Ga.— North Florida's Jack Findel-Hawkins and Norbert Nemcsek ousted the nation's No. 1-ranked doubles team Yannick Hanfmann and Ray Sarmiento of Southern California 6-4, 6-1 in the opening round of the NCAA Men's Tennis Doubles Championships at the Dan Magill Tennis Center in Athens, Ga.

"It was another great day for Norbert and Jack establishing themselves as one of the best teams in the nation," said head coach Mark Finnegan. "Jack and Norbert had battled injuries leading into nationals, however, they stuck to what they do best and focused on their process goals. I'm very proud of how they handled adversity these past weeks and we will continue to put UNF tennis on the national stage. We are already looking forward to battling Pepperdine tomorrow."

In the first set, the Ospreys and Trojans held serve until 3-all when USC broke Nemcsek's serve to go up 4-3. North Florida fought back and broke serve to tie the game at 4-4. Findel-Hawkins held serve to go up 5-4, and then the duo broke Hanfmann and Sarmiento claiming the first set 6-4.

Using the momentum of the first set victory, the Ospreys won the first three games in set two, holding serve twice and breaking USC once. UNF extended their advantage to 5-1, setting up Findel-Hawkins to serve for the match at 40-0, wit the freshman blistering a serve for the match winning ace.

The Ospreys face Pepperdine's Francis Alcantara and Alex Sarkinssian in the round of 16 on May 23 at 4 p.m.

North Florida Quotes:
Freshman Jack Findel-Hawkins - On defeating the Southern Cal's top-ranked doubles team...
"It was good. We trained a lot all of this week. We put in a great performance there. These guys have had a long week, but we played great. We played our game, and it was really good fun."

Junior Norbert Nemcsek
On advancing to the Round of 16...
"It feels awesome. We beat the No. 1 team in the country. We're ready for our next match and hopefully we can keep it rolling and just take it match by match."