NEWARK, N.J. --- Senior Pablo Arrutia provided the NJIT men's tennis team with its lone victory during the Highlanders' 6-1 setback against ASUN Conference defending champion North Florida Ospreys Saturday afternoon at the Naimoli Family Athletic and Recreation Facility.

Arrutia played an inspired match at No. 6 singles in his first action of the season. Arrutia, battled back from a first set loss (6-2) to tie the score with a winning second set (6-4) and earned the point after taking a marathon third set, 14-12.

Zac Castagna also pushed his singles opponent to three sets by winning his second set but was unable to capture the point.

"The doubles matches were close today UNF proved to be too tough in the singles matches. All credit goes to Pablo Arrutia for coming off the bench and winning his first match of the year and to Zac and Abdallah for fighting hard in close matches as well," head coach Ira Miller said after the contest. 

North Florida 6, NJIT 1
3/30/19 at Newark, NJ (Naimoli Center) 
Singles competition
1. Sahil Deshmukh (UNF) def. Lukas Zvikas (NJIT) 6-1, 6-1
2. Till Von Winning (UNF) def. Abdullah Fouad (NJIT) 6-2, 7-5
3. Nilo Duarte (UNF) def. Zac Castagna (NJIT) 6-0, 6-7, 7-6
4. Jorge Nunez (UNF) def. George Svensson (NJIT) 6-2, 6-1
5. Federico Nani (UNF) def. Juan Bejarano (NJIT) 6-0, 6-4
6. Pablo Arrutia (NJIT) def. Charley Castaing (UNF) 2-6, 6-4, 14-12

Doubles competition
1. Zac Castagna/Pablo Arrutia (NJIT) vs. Sahil Deshmukh/Nilo Duarte (UNF) 4-4, unfinished
2. Jorge Nunez/Federico Nani (UNF) def. Lukas Zvikas/George Svensson (NJIT) 6-3
3. Till Von Winning/Dominik Barton (UNF) def. Abdullah Fouad/Juan Bejarano (NJIT) 6-1

Match Notes
North Florida 9-9 (2-1 ASUN)
NJIT 4-11 (0-3 ASUN)