Box Score

JACKSON – The Millsaps College women's tennis team could not find the elusive fifth point at home against Mississippi College Tuesday evening, falling 5-4 to move to 2-12 overall on the season.

Opening doubles play, the team of \#Stephanie Brown\#/\#Lauren Williams\# continued its strong play gaining the first point for the Majors with an 8-4 win at the No. 1 position.

The Lady Choctaws would claim the final two doubles points to take a 2-1 lead into singles action.

Both Brown and Williams carried their momentum into singles play recording straight set wins 6-4, 6-2 and 6-3, 6-1, respectively.

Brown has now won three consecutive singles matches and improves to 3-1 overall.

With \#Allison Zakaras\# ahead by a set, her opponent retired in the middle of the second set giving Millsaps another crucial point at the top of the lineup.

Coming down to the final three singles positions, the Majors needed one point to clinch the match, but MC was too strong at the bottom of the lineup and claimed all three points in straight sets to secure the victory, 5-4.

“It was a good effort against a balanced team” head coach Jay Pacelli said. “We missed our chance in doubles, needing to squeeze out another point.”

Millsaps will return to the courts over the weekend with four matches in three days when they travel to Birmingham, Ala., to face Southwestern University on Friday, Oglethorpe University and Centre College on Saturday and Birmingham-Southern College on Sunday.