DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The sixth-ranked Embry-Riddle women's tennis team suffered its first Sun Conference loss of the season on Saturday, falling to third-ranked SCAD Savannah 6-1.

In doubles play, Maria Barragan and Daniella Ancila downed Paola Montero and Giovanna Tomiotto 8-2. The matches at the first and third doubles position saw the Eagles take early leads. After going up 3-0 at the top spot, Kristina Marova and Hui-I Huang fell behind to the top-ranked team of Maja Plavsic and Theresa Schmaus 7-4. The Eagle duo won the next two games and fought hard in the next frame, but the SCAD duo was able to pull out the 8-6 win.

At No. 3 doubles, Ana Gonzalez-Hoy and Meena Bennett led Carolina Viteri and Andrea Gonzalez 4-1. The ERAU pair still managed to hold on to a 6-5 edge, but SCAD won three straight games to take the match 8-6 and give the Bees a 3-0 advantage heading into doubles.

SCAD won three of the six singles points as Schmaus bested Huang 6-2, 6-2, Anila got by Tomiotto 7-5, 6-1 and Viteri held off a late surge from Gonzalez-Hoy to win 6-1, 7-6 (7-1).

The Eagles' only point came at No. 1 singles where Plavsic was forced to forfeit her match due to injury.

The final two matches on the court were at the third and sixth singles positions. At No. 3 Paola Montero won the first set 6-4 and was up 5-4 in the second, while Meena Bennett won the first 6-4, but lost the second 3-6 to force a third set tiebreaker. Neither match reached completion as sub-40 temperature and windy conditions prompted both coaches to agree to bring play to a halt.

“I'm pretty happy with our effort today,” ERAU Head Coach Dave Paschal said following the match.  “We played in tough conditions; when we stopped the match it was 36 degrees. I'm happy with how hard we fought. I look forward to continuing to work hard and maybe getting a rematch against them in the conference tournament.”

The Eagles will play a scrimmage against Florida State College-Jacksonville at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Crotty Tennis Complex.