JACKSON – After falling behind 2-1 in doubles, it was looking bleak for the Millsaps Majors Men's Tennis Team as it looked as though the University of Mobile was going to leave Jackson with a win. However, come-from-behind victories from Senior David Bastian and freshman Charles Rees tied the match at 4-4 where all the attention turned to Court One, where junior Malte Schick came through with a three set, thrilling victory to give the Majors the win, 5-4.
 
The No. 1 Doubles Team of Schick and junior Adam Tilly got the game started with a 8-3 win in their match over Karlis Stonis and Ferrando Piava. However, the Majors fell behind in the match after Mobile too the No. 2 and No. 3 matches in great matches, 8-4 and 9-7.
 
The singles matches then began as the Majors picked up a win in a dominating performance from Tilly to make the match 3-2. After the Majors dropped another match to fall behind 4-2, the Majors turned it on to begin the comeback.

Rees played a very mature match for a freshman as he came from behind to take a three set win on No. 4 Singles over Guilherme Arcares. After dropping set one, 6-4, Rees dominated the remainder of the match as he cruised to a 6-1, 6-0 victory and make it a 4-3 match.
 
Shortly after, Bastian completed another comeback as he took a three set match over Piava. After struggling to get any shots to fall and losing, Bastian found his groove and came from behind in set two to win 6-3. He then went on to break Piava and then held serve to win the match, 6-4 to tie it all up at 4-4.
 
As that match ended, all eyes turned to No. 1 Singles between Schick and Stonis. Stonis went ahead 4-1 in set one and was looking to cruise to an early 1-0 lead, before Schick rattled off five straight games to win 6-4. However, Stonis battled back, hitting some huge shots to salvage the second set, 7-5.
 
Set three was a thriller, as both went back and forth, Schick broke serve and went ahead 5-3 as he served for the match, but Stonis responded to break serve back and make it a 5-4 game. The resilient junior out of Germany did not let the match go any further though as he broke right back to take the win the match individually and for the team, 5-4.
 
The Majors pick up their second straight win to go to 6-8 on the season as the whole team played great tennis throughout the day. Millsaps is back in action tomorrow afternoon as they welcome in Spring Hill to Jackson at 4:30 p.m.
 
Millsaps 5 University of Mobile 4
 
No. 1 Doubles;  Malte Schick and Adam Tilly (M) d. Karlis Stonis and Fernando Piava (Mo); 8-3
No. 2 Doubles;  Lucas Triston and Guilherme Arcares (Mo) d. Charles Rees and Davis Bastian (M); 8-4
No. 3 Doubles; Enzo Correa and Bruno Marques (Mo) d. Beau Hinton and Misa Pjevac (M); 9-7
 
No. 1 Singles;     Schick (M) d. Stonis (Mo); 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
No. 2 Singles;     Bastian (M) d. Piava (Mo); 1-6,6-3, 6-4
No. 3 Singles;     Tilly (M) d. Correa (Mo); 6-1, 6-3
No. 4 Singles;     Rees (M) d. Arcares (Mo); 4-6, 6-0, 6-1
No. 5 Singles;     Triston (Mo) d. Pjevac (M); 6-0, 6-2
No. 6 Singles;     Marques (M) d. Hinton (M); 2-6, 6-0, 6-2