Birmingham, Ala. – The Millsaps Majors Men's Tennis Team traveled to Birmingham this week to take on SCAC opponents in Southwestern and Birmingham-Southern. The Majors defeated Southwestern 8-1 on Saturday before falling to BSC on Sunday 6-3.
 
Against Southwestern, the Majors got great games from all three of their doubles teams to take a 3-0 lead early on. The No. 3 team of senior Beau Hinton and sophomore Misa Pjevac got Millsaps its first points with a 8-6 win over their opponents.
 
The No. 1 team of juniors Malte Schick and Adam Tilly won their match 9-7 and the No. 2 team of senior David Bastian and freshman Charles Rees completed the doubles sweep by winning 8-6.
 
The Majors cruised the rest of the way as they took care of business on the singles side. All five players that won their match, won in two sets.
 
The next day against Birmingham-Southern, the Majors got another great performance from their doubles teams as the No. 3 team picked up another win, 8-4. The doubles points fell in the hands of the No. 2 team of Bastian and Rees as they came through and took a thrilling match, 9-7, to give the Majors a 2-1 lead.
 
However, singles did struggled as BSC responded and took the win 6-3. Schick picked up the only win in singled competition as he came from behind for the second straight week to win, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1.
 
Millsaps prepares to go to Hilton Head, South Carolina for Spring Break as they will play Georgetown College, Heidelberg University, and Dickinson College on the weekend.