NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The Millsaps men's tennis team capped off an up-and-down season with a 9th place finish at the SCAC Championships this past weekend, winning their final two matches over Austin, 9-0, and tournament host Hendrix, 8-1, to end the season at 8-14 overall.

After starting the year 3-9, Millsaps finished the year strong by going 5-5 over its last 10.

Millsaps, seeded 6th for the tournament, opened with an upset defeat to 11th-seeded Colorado College, 5-4, on Friday, losing two, three-set matches in singles play at No's 3 and 5.  The Majors led 2-1 after the doubles points but were edged in singles behind tie-breaker wins for Nathanael Burt, Brian Thirkell and Thomas Modern.

Playing its second match of the day out of the Loser's Bracket, Millsaps swept the doubles points for an early 3-0 lead, including a 9-8 (5-0) tie-break win from \#Beau Hinton\#/\#Geoff Joseph\# at No. 3, to cruise to a 9-0 win over Austin College.

All six singles victories came by way of straight-set wins, while both Hinton and Joseph skunked their opponents, 6-0, 6-0.

The Majors capped off their season with an 8-1 win over host Hendrix on Saturday, with the lone blemish at No. 1 singles where \#David Bastian\# was knocked off 7-6 (7-4), 6-2, by Michael Gardner.

Bastian and doubles teammate \#Russell Anderson\# capped off a perfect 3-0 weekend with a tie-break win at No. 2 doubles, 9-8 (7-1), over the pair of Craig Thomas and Austin Kearney.  \#Campbell Hughes\# also won his match at No. 2 singles, finishing the weekend 2-0 after an opening-match loss to CC's Trace Cochran.

As a team, Millsaps went 8-1 in doubles play over the weekend, while \#Alex Cummings\# and Joseph were a perfect 3-0 in singles play over three matches.

The SCAC All-Tournament Team will be announced on Tuesday by the conference office.