JACKSON, Miss. - The Millsaps tennis teams played Birmingham Southern on Sunday, falling to the Panthers in Jackson.
Nice and stable weather conditions were promising a great day of tennis for both teams. The Millsaps women's team welcomed Cally Creekmore on board and was looking forward to have a full and strong set of players.
With the full roster present, David and David built Millsaps' number one doubles. After breaking the opponent early in the match, David and David were up (2-1).
BSC's women immediately broke back and started to play better and better. After a couple of long and close games, BSC women succeeded and won (8-3). Newcomer Cally Creekmore and Lauren Gabrescli formed Millsaps' number two doubles.
Improving from game to game the two inexperienced Millsaps players started to pick up their game. However, it was a little bit too late and Creekmore and Gabrescli lost (2-8). Nguyen and Harris at number three doubles lost (3-8).
On the men's team; Hughes and Schick trying to recover from a tough loss the day before played very strong. At four games each, Schick got broken and lost his serving game. R. Pilling playing for BSC held his serve and put a lot of pressure on Hughes.
After a 10min serving game, Hughes and Schick lost patience and lost the match (5-8). The Bastian brothers, performing much better than the day before, got also broken in a decisive serving game and lost the 2nd doubles (5-8). Hinton and Pjevac forming the third doubles lost also (5-8), after an intense and long match.
Playing number one for the Millsaps women team, Cally Creekmore had a quick start. She overwhelmed B. Copper and won the first set (6-0). The second set wasn't as easy and got decided in the tie-breaker, which BSC won (9-7). Split sets caused the two number one players to play out a super-tie-breaker, which also won B. Cooper, the finl result (6-0, 6-7, 3-10).
The David sisters playing at number 2 and 3 seat for Millsaps both lost (1-6, 2-6). Team Captain Mimi Nguyen had a difficult match and lost (1-6, 1-6). Genevieve Harris played P. Gartmer and went down (1-6, 1-6). Number six player L. Gabrescli lost as well (0-6, 1-6)
On the men's side, after winning the first set (7-6) Schick lost the second (3-6). Another super-tie-breaker had to be played, which J. Zukley for BSC won, final result (7-6, 3-6, 7-10).
David Bastian played at number two seat this time and lost (0-6, 0-6). Campbell Hughes, in the three seat, also went through a three set match. He lost the first set (1-6), won (6-2) the second set and unfortunately lost the third set (6-7), final result (1-6, 6-2, 6-7).
After losing the first set, Freshman Robby Bastian came back and won the second set (6-2), Again, another super-tie-breaker had to decide the match. After long rallies and smart playing by both players, BSC dominated and won (10-6) final result (4-6, 6-2, 6-10).
Number five seat Hinton, as well as Schick won the first set and lost the second. After a long fight in another super-tie-breaker, Hinton gave in and lost (7-6, 1-6, 5-10). Misa Pjevac lost to L. Mengel (4-6,1-6)
