CLEVELAND -- Freshman David Pata (Bucharest, Romania/Emil Racovita) and junior Bor Schweiger Muzar (Crnomelj, Slovenia/Gimnm) of the Northern Illinois University men's tennis team were named the Mid-American Conference Doubles Team of the Week, announced by the conference office on Wednesday. 

The Huskie tandem swept a pair of matches this past weekend, topping Adrian Mag and Aviv Ben Shabat of Butler, 6-3, on Saturday (Feb. 23) before earning a 6-1 win over Green Bay's Dipin Wadhwa and Charlie Crozford on Sunday (Feb. 24). The pair of matches were just the second and third played by Pata and Muzar as a duo this season as they improved to 2-1. 

Pata and Muzar's honor is the third MAC Doubles Team of the Week honor for the Huskies this season. Senior Eric Marbach (Naperville, Ill./Waubonsie Valley) and sophomore Kristopher Ortega (Home Glen, Ill./Seton Home Study School) claimed the award on January 23 and February 6. 

NIU is currently 8-5 on the season and has two more non-conference matches scheduled, against Valparaiso (March 9) and Youngstown State (March 10) in Orlando, Fla., before opening conference play against Western Michigan on March 16.