WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The top-ranked Embry-Riddle men's tennis team improved to 4-1 on the year with an 8-1 defeat of 17th-ranked Northwood at the Seahawks' home courts on Friday. Playing their first match in 15 days, the Eagles swept all three doubles points and won five of six singles to earn their second Sun Conference victory of the season.
 
The Blue and Gold got its first point of the day when Miguel Lopez Gomez and Luke de Caires downed Diego Ortega and David Cathalina 8-2 at No. 3 doubles. The top-ranked tandem of Deni Zmak and Simon Felix bested Northwood's top-flight duo of Alvaro Iturriaga 8-4 and David Uquillas, and Patrick Besch and Jaime Sanchez-Canamares Rios combined for an 8-6 win over Ernesto Laborda and Niktia Borodatov to complete the doubles sweep.
 
NAIA No. 1 Zmak was the first to finish his singles match against Iturriaga and he downed the Seahawk junior 6-1, 6-2 at No. 1 for the Eagles' first singles point. Sanchez-Canamares scored the clincher with his 6-3, 6-2 win over Uquillas at the second position. Felix followed with a 6-3, 7-5 win over Borodatov at No. 3, while de Caires downed Ortega 6-2, 6-1 at No. 6 and Lopez Gomez wrapped up the Eagles' scoring by besting Alplund 6-2, 6-3 at the fifth spot.
 
The only match to go to three sets was on court four where Laborda pulled out a 1-6, 6-3, 10-8 win over Besch for the Seahawks' only point of the afternoon.
 
The Eagles will be back in action at 10 a.m. on Saturday when they travel further south to Boca Raton to take on NCAA II No. 4 Lynn.

Box Score

#1 Embry-Riddle 8, #17 Norhtwood 1

 Singles
1. Deni Zmak (ERAUMT13) def. Alvaro Iturriaga (NUM) 6-1, 6-1
2. Jaime Sanchez-Canamares Rios (ERAUMT13) def. David Uquillas (NUM) 6-2, 6-0
3. Simon Felix (ERAUMT13) def. Niktia Borodatov (NUM) 6-3, 7-5
4. Ernesto Laborda (NUM) def. Patrick Besch (ERAUMT13) 1-6, 6-5, 10-8
5. Miguel Lopez Gomez (ERAUMT13) def. Jacob Alplund (NUM) 6-2, 6-3
6. Luke de Caires (ERAUMT13) def. Diego Ortega (NUM) 6-2, 6-1

Doubles
1. #1 Simon Felix/Juan Verberne (ERAUMT13) def. Alvaro Iturriaga/David Uquillas (NUM) 8-4
2. Patrick Besch/Jaime Sanchez-Canama (ERAUMT13) def. Niktia Borodatov/Ernesto Laborda (NUM) 8-6
3. Miguel Lopez Gomez/Luke de Caires (ERAUMT13) def. Diego Ortega/David Cathalina (NUM) 8-2

Match Notes:
Embry-Riddle 4-1, 2-0; National ranking #1
Norhtwood 2-3, 1-2; National ranking #17
Order of finish: Doubles (3,1,2); Singles (1,2,3,6,4,5)
Sanchez-Canamares clinched at No. 2 singles