DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. --  NCAA Division II No. 1 Valdosta State notched two doubles and three singles wins to edge NAIA No. 2 Embry-Riddle 5-3 on Saturday. The Blazers improved their record to 12-1 on the year, while the Eagles move to 11-6 overall.

The first doubles match to reach completion was on court three where Simon Felix and Peter Francis downed Otto Lenhart and Bernhard Wallner. The Blazers got a point back when Phillip Pakebush and Luis Loeffler topped Adrian Bayh and Patrick Besch at No. 2. At No. 1 doubles, the second-ranked VSU pair of Daniel Dueren and Christian Hansen pulled ahead of the Eagles' Chris Freeman and David Spennare. The ERAU tandem fought back to knot the score at 8-8, but fell 7-4 in the tiebreaker to give the Blazers a 2-1 lead.

Valdosta State added two points to its tally when Loeffler topped Francis 6-3, 6-4 at No. 3 singles and second-ranked Pakebush downed Freeman 6-4, 6-3 at the top spot. Felix got a point back for the Blue and Gold with a 7-5, 6-4 defeat of Konstantin Kutschenko at the fourth position and Spennare registered the Eagles' third point with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Lenhart at No. 5.

At No. 2 singles, Besch took the first set 6-4 against NCAA II No. 19 Hansen, but the VSU senior won the second by the same margin to force a third set. In the final stanza, Hansen went up 5-2 but Besch broke and then held to make the score 5-4. Hansen managed to break Besch in the next game to win the match 6-4 and clinch the win for the Blazers.

The Eagles close out regular season play at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday against the University of Central Florida.