JACKSON, Miss. – The Millsaps Tennis teams competed in the USTA/ITA Regional Championships hosted by Emory University and the University of the South-Sewanee.

The men were up first, competing at Emory in Atlanta. The Majors got a pair of wins in the singles competition from Campbell Hughes and David Bastian. Hughes defeated Mark Sayorsky of Berry College in the A-Draw 6-2, 6-0 before losing a 6-0, 6-2 decision to Emory's Will Humphreyes. Bastian lost his first match 6-2, 6-0 to Emory's Peter Marcinkowski, but won 8-3 against Scott Eibes of Ozarks College in the Consolation round. Misa Pjevac lost both his matches, first to Hanlon Walsh of Birmingham-Southern then to Lee Prather of Mississippi College.

The men did not fare as well in the doubles competition, falling in both the A-Draw and Consolation rounds as Bastian and Hughes fell to fell to Prata and Kautonen of North Carolina Wesleyan in the A-Draw and Mician and Surls of Berry College in the Consolation round.

Coach Pacelli was pleased with his team's effort in their first outing of the season. “The guys worked hard today and suffered some close loses, young players like Misa will only improve in the coming months.”

The ladies followed this weekend in pairings held at the University of the South-Sewanee up in Tennessee. The women went 3-4 on the afternoon. Stephanie Brown posted wins over Meredith Mayfield from Centre (a forfeit) and Breanna Kelley of Emory 6-0, 6-7 (4-7), and 6-1 before falling to the number four seed Jenny Liles of Sewanee 2-6 and 3-6.

Lauren Williams drew the eight-seed Rachel Storz from Agnes Scott in her first solo match, falling 3-6 and 0-6 before losing to Lindsey Wilburn of Sewanee 3-8 in the second match. She did, however, find success in the doubles competition as she and Brown defeated Scott and Creamer of Huntingdon College 8-3 before losing to the six-seeded Clark and Kelley from Emory 3-8 in the final match.

Coach Pacelli though both women played well on the day, “they defeated a talented doubles team from Huntingdon and pushed the sixth-seeded pair from an elite Emory program; Stephanie also won a two-and-a-half hour long marathon against one of Emory's best, and Lauren played a strong first set against Agnes Scott's number one player. I am proud of the efforts of both women.”