ATLANTA (April 3, 2015) -- Both the men's and women's tennis teams of Milligan College put a three-match winning streak on the line on Good Friday at the Friends of Bitsy Grant Tennis complex, and while the men rolled through an 8-1 victory, the women were stung by a 7-2 defeat by the SCAD Atlanta Bees.
 
Junior Matias Yanez was the only one to suffer defeat â€" in extra points of a third set super tiebreaker â€" on the men's side, but he and Colin Bumann pulled off a thrilling come-from-behind win in doubles in the morning which set the tone for Milligan victory in the afternoon. Yanez and Bumann trailed 4-1 and 6-5 on the one doubles court before a Yanez hold of serve, a break of the SCAD serve, and a Bumann easy hold gave the Buffs one of three doubles points they would earn before singles.
 
Leading 3-0 and with SCAD Atlanta defaulting a point at six singles, Milligan needed only one point to clinch. Fernando Gonzalez secured that clinching point in straight sets, needing only 15 games to defeat SCAD's Denzel Hollis at four singles (6-2, 6-1). If not for Gonzalez winning the fifth point, Bumann, Jackson Lenoir or Braden White would surely have obliged. Bumann, the AAC's reigning player of the week, was a 6-3, 6-1 winner on court one, Lenoir won 7-6 (1), 6-1 on court three, and White won 6-0, 6-1 on court five.
 
The Milligan men indeed made easy work of SCAD as they were done with all nine points for more than an hour before SCAD found its way past the Milligan women.
 
Three of the six women's singles matches went to a third set, the most grueling of which went to Rachel Hodas who battled back from a set down but lost 6-4 in the third (7-5, 4-6, 6-4). Similarly, Sarah Rainwater battled back from a set down but was also defeated in the third (6-4, 6-7, 6-0). Finally, Kaycee Roark won her middle set and completed a comeback herself by winning the last seven points of her super tiebreaker (3-6, 6-3, 10-6).
 
Abigail Allen was the only other Buff with a win in singles as she defeated Elisa Freitas 6-0, 6-4 on court four. Allen and doubles partner Caroline Morelli nearly came away with a win at two doubles but fell in a tiebreak.
 
Milligan will be back on its home court for another AAC match against Point University on Saturday, April 4. Action will be under way starting at 11 a.m., pending weather, at the Mathes Tennis Center.