Men's Tennis Southern Conference

GSU Men's Tennis Wins First Match (Feb. 20)

Miles gets first career victory

STATESBORO, GA - The Georgia Southern men's tennis team picked up its first win of the season on Wednesday defeating Jacksonville 6-1 at the Hanner Courts.

The win improves the Eagles' record to 1-3 and marks the first career win for first-year Georgia Southern coach Justin Miles."All the guys played consistently and began to show how good this team can actually be," said Miles.

Georgia Southern won two of three doubles matches to take the doubles point. Wojciech Nowak and Darren Clark won at No. 1 doubles over Ben Birkmann and Christopher Mueller 8-4 while at No. 3 doubles, Noah Tyler and Mark Finnegan shutout Kamal El-khoury and Rich Davoli 8-0.

The Eagles won five singles matches but it was not easy as two of the matches went three sets. Nowak won at No. 1 singles over Birkmann 6-0, 2-6, 7-5, Uli Ebensperger bested Muller at No. 3 singles 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 while Jacksonville's lone win came in three sets at No. six singles as Davoli beat Rohan Williams 6-0, 2-6, 2-6. Clark, Mark Finnegan and Noah Tyler also won single matches for Georgia Southern.

The women's match between Georgia Southern and Jacksonville was postponed because of rain and will be rescheduled at a date to be determined, according to coach Cathy Beene.

Georgia Southern's men and women will return to action Friday by hosting Campbell at the Hanner Courts beginning at 11:00 a.m.

SINGLES

#1 Wojciech Nowak (GSU) def. Ben Birkmann (JU) 6-0, 2-6, 7-5

#2 Darren Clark (GSU) def. Andres Rojas (JU) 6-3, 7-5

#3 Uli Ebensperger (GSU) def. Christoph Mueller (JU) 4-6, 6-2, 6-3

#4 Mark Finnegan (GSU) def. Jimmy El-Khoury (JU) 6-0, 6-1

#5 Noah Tyler (GSU) def. Antonio Bugge (JU) 6-2, 6-3

#6 Rich Davoli (JU) def. Rohan Williams (GSU) 6-0, 2-6, 2-6

Exhibition: Stephen Dubienski (GSU) def. Kamal El Bouzkouri (JU) 6-0, 6-7(16), (10-2)

DOUBLES

#1 Nowak-Clark (GSU) def. Birkmann-Rojas (JU) 8-4

#2 Bugge-Rojas (JU) def Williams-Danie Van Den Heever (GSU) 8-6

#3 Tyler-Finnegan (GSU) def.El Bouzkouri - Davoli (JU) 8-0