It’s a 627-mile trip to Fayetteville, Ark.

Add that to the fact the flight was delayed five hours, an hour of sleep was lost because of the central time zone change and Sunday’s match was a relatively early start. All those factors would help contribute to a loss, right?

Wrong.

Despite the adversity in the travels of the No. 3 Georgia men’s tennis team (16-2, 5-1 SEC) in its voyage to Arkansas (9-9, 1-5 SEC), the Bulldogs still managed to bring home a victory after blanking the Razorbacks 7-0.

“I’m just really happy about today’s match because I felt like everyone played very well. The circumstances were somewhat difficult,” said head coach Manuel Diaz. “With the time change, we lost an hour of sleep, and yet our guys showed up to the match and played as well as they possibly could’ve played.”

After the No. 7 ranked doubles pair of Nate Schnugg and Jamie Hunt secured the doubles point for the Bulldogs, the rest of the team followed suit in singles to post their fifth shutout of the season.

“We knew, coming into it, how good this team was, and for us to beat them 7-0 just shows how well we played them from top to bottom,” Schnugg said.

At the No. 1 singles spot, Schnugg faced Arkansas’s Blake Strode. Schnugg took the first set to a tiebreaker, and “got a little lucky in the tiebreaker, and ended up taking that [set.]”

Schnugg dropped the second set, but won the match in a super tiebreaker after the dual match was decided 7-6(5), 3-6, 10-5.

“The third set, I played some of the best tennis that I’ve played all year in the 10-point tiebreaker,” Schnugg said. “I ran away with it a little bit, and he just couldn’t catch up.”

Georgia’s win over Arkansas came two days after the Bulldogs beat LSU 5-2 on Friday. With the Bulldogs winning an SEC match on the road through unfavorable traveling conditions, Diaz believes the team’s confidence will be even higher in going into the second half of SEC play.

“I thought it was a match that we gained a lot of confidence in ourselves, and in our team by the way we handled ourselves out there on the court,” Diaz said. “It was great how everyone came through the way they did.”