April 21, 2006
TULSA, Okla. - The fifth-seeded UCF men's tennis team dropped a 4-2 opening-round match to No. 4 UAB at the Conference USA Championship on Friday morning at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center. The Golden Knights (11-10) were making their C-USA Championship debut.
The Blazers, who improve to 12-4, won the doubles point and then claimed three singles victories. UAB will face the winner of the No. 1 Rice/No. 8 Southern Miss match in the semifinals on Saturday.
UCF did record a pair of singles wins against the Blazers. At No. 5, freshman Tarek Ben Soltane defeated Johanness Spangenberg, 6-3, 6-3. Fellow freshman Brock Sakey took a 6-4, 6-4 win over Andre Maier at No. 4.
At the No. 2 position, UAB's Sebastian Falk got past sophomore Alamgir Wali (6-3, 6-3). UCF junior Sebastian Delgado dropped a 6-2, 6-1 contest to Kristijan Mitrovski at No. 3. Kruno Despotovski of UAB took a 6-1, 6-1 match at No. 6 against freshman Jimmy Roesch.
UCF was playing in the C-USA Championship for the first time after moving from the Atlantic Sun.
No. 4 UAB 4, No. 5 UCF 2
Singles
1: Anton Mavrin (UAB) vs. Sinan Sudas (UCF) DNF
2: Sebastian Falk (UAB) def. Alamgir Wali (UCF) 6-3, 6-3
3: Kristijan Mitrovski (UAB) def. Sebastian Delgado (UCF) 6-2, 6-1
4: Brock Sakey (UCF) def. Andre Maier (UBA) 6-4, 6-4
5: Tarek Ben Soltane (UCF) def. Johannes Spangenberg (UAB) 6-3, 6-3
6: Kruno Despotovski (UAB) def. Jimmy Roesch (UCF) 6-1, 6-1
Doubles
1: Mavrin/Spangenberg (UAB) def. Ben Soltane/Delgado (UCF) 8-3
2: Falk/Maier (UAB) vs. Alcantara/Sudas (UCF) DNF
3: Mitrovski/Weiss (UAB) def. Roesch/Sakey (UCF) 8-4