In a matchup of the NAIA's second- and third-ranked teams, the Georgia Gwinnett women's tennis team took the double contests 2-1 in close matches over the SCAD Women's Team.  The Lady Bees were unable to win in singles and lost 8-1.
 
Doubles
 
Doubles play featured a pair of 9-7 matches as the Grizzlies scratched out an early 2-1 lead.
Schmaus and Maja Plavsic (ranked 4th nationally), lost 9-7 to Valeria Podda and Helena Korumpis who rank as the nation's number two overall doubles pair.
 
The #2 team of Maria Barragan and Daniella Arcila earned SCAD its lone point with a 9-7 win, but an 8-2 win by Paloma Cortina and Chiara Di Salvo over Carolina Viteri and Ana Dominguez gave the Grizzlies their lead that they never lost.
 
Singles
 
Georgia Gwinnett's Podda, who ranks fifth in the country in the ITA's latest NAIA women's singles rankings, defeated the nation's number one player in Theresa Schmaus, 6-3, 6-7 (1), 11-9.  It was a particularly competitive match as Schmaus came back from a first set defeat to win the second set in a tiebreak.  It came down to a third set where Podda won the match by defeating Schmaus 11-9.  Schmaus's third set loss was the only singles match to go to a third set.
 
In the remaining singles Maja Plavsic (#2) lost 7-5, 6-2; Maria Barragan (#3) lost 6-3, 6-3; Daniella Arcila (#4) lost 6-1, 6-3; Carolina Viteri (#5) lost 6-0, 6-3; and Isadora Salvetti (#6) lost 6-2, 6-2.
 
The Bees fell to 1-2 with today's loss.  It was not a good day for the Lady Bees, but they will be back again tomorrow to take on Benedict College in a 9 a.m. start at Bacon Park.