MOBILE, Ala. ? For the second year in a row, the Savannah College of Art and Design (9-6) men's tennis season came to an end at the hands of Embry-Riddle at the NAIA National Championship. The second-seeded Eagles won two doubles matches and notched three singles wins to oust the seventh-seeded Bees 5-1 in the quarterfinals of the national tournament, held at the Copeland-Cox Tennis Center on Thursday. The Eagle men are now 18-2 on the year will take on the winner of the Fresno Pacific/Azusa Pacific match at 9 a.m. on Friday.

Istvan Bolgar and Peter Francis were the first to finish their match at No. 3 doubles. Neither Embry-Riddle nor the SCAD team of Felix Missal and Mihai Draganescu led by more than a point for the majority of the contest. SCAD went ahead 6-5, but the Eagles broke to tie the game a 6-6 and registered a hold and a break to pull out the 8-6 win.

ERAU's Adrian Bayh and Charlie Rice fended off a spirited effort by Kaan Yaylali and Willy Frei in a match that included 14 deuces in one game. Bayh and Rice emerged with an 8-2 win at the No. 2 spot, giving the Eagles a 2-0 lead.

Carlos Bes Comeras and Jan Hoekzema fell behind 4-1 to SCAD's Jan Menzen and Dima Chiriacov at the top doubles spot. They pulled to within a point at 6-5, but SCAD held on to win the next two points to make the overall score 2-1 heading into singles play.

The Eagles got their first singles point at the second singles spot when Missal fell behind 3-0 to Hoekzema and before retiring due to injury.

Francis recorded the Eagles' next singles win at the No. 4 spot topping Frei 6-2, 6-2, marking his third win over the SCAD senior this season.

With four matches left on the court, the Eagles needed only one win to clinch the team victory and they got it from freshman Zander Woodford-Smith at the No. 6 position. Woodford-Smith blanked Draganescu 6-0 in the first set and held the SCAD sophomore to just one game in the second to help the Eagles advance to their fifth semifinal in as many seasons.