PENSACOLA, Fla. - No. 1 West Florida (21-1, 7-1 GSC) wrapped up its 2025 regular season in style over the Easter weekend. The Argos earned their 20th victory in a season for the first time since 2022 and the second time since 2019 with its 6-1 win on the road over DI New Orleans (12-7, 3-2 SLC) on Good Friday. They returned home to take on South Region rival Saint Leo (18-7, 6-1 SSC) on Easter Sunday in a matchup of national top-10 teams, and won 4-0 for their 12th ranked win of the season and their fourth such result via sweep.
No. 1 UWF 6, New Orleans 1
Miguel Cabrera and
Bernardo Costa got the day in NOLA started with a 6-2 win on court three over Julian Franzmann and Marc Mail.
Sebastian Rondon and
Diego Duran clinched the doubles point at the top of the lineup with a 6-3 victory over Mark Armbruster and Sep De Visser.
Sebastian Sotelo and
Tomas Leston swept the opening point with their 6-2 win over Joseph Townes and Jay Temming.
Duran started singles by completing an undefeated day with an easy 6-1, 6-2 win over David Tesic on court four. One court down, the Privateers scratched a point back with a 7-5, 6-4 win for Townes over
Albin Ekenros, but the Argos made it a two-point lead again shortly after with Cabrera's 6-1, 7-5 win over Mail at the top spot. At the bottom of the lineup, Leston clinched the result with his comeback 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 victory over De Visser. Rondon made it 5-1 on court two via a 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 final score over Armbruster before Sotelo set the final score when he pulled out a tight 7-6 (7-2), 6-3 win over Franzmann.
No. 1 UWF 4, No. 8 Saint Leo 0
Duran and Rondon, ranked No. 2 in the ITA DII National Doubles Rankings, earned arguably their biggest win of the season to start off the day, knocking off No. 4 Luis Iriarte and Eduardo Cohen 6-3. No. 42 Sotelo and Leston followed suit with another 6-3 decision over Vincent Thiel and Dylan Andrianaly to clinch the opening point.
Duran, ranked No. 40 in the ITA DII Singles Rankings, repeated his 2-0 feat from Friday with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Kodai Kato. No. 35 Sotelo did the same one court up with a 6-3, 6-1 result over Andrianaly. The top spot featured the lone ranked singles matchup of the day between top-15 players, and No. 7 Cabrera took control and sealed the match with a 6-4, 6-3 final over No. 12 Thiel. The result called off potential losses on court two by No. 10 Rondon and court six by Leston, as well as a deadlocked 6-6 second set between Ekenros and Taiyo Hirano.
The Argos, ranked No. 1 in the nation but No. 2 in the GSC thanks to its head-to-head loss to 17-0 Valdosta State, heads to Montgomery, Ala., for the GSC Championship Quarterfinals on Thursday, April 24. They play at 2:30 pm at O'Connor Tennis Center against No. 7-seed West Alabama, who the Argos swept last month on its home courts. UWF has never lost to UWA in 26 all-time meetings, including six times in the conference tournament, but never this early in the event, as they have always met in the semifinals or championship match until this season.
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