GAFFNEY, S.C. --- Tusculum University came back to the action for the first time in nearly two weeks, and the 36th-ranked Pioneers defeated Limestone University 5-2 in a South Atlantic Conference men's tennis match Saturday afternoon.

Playing for the first time in 12 days following a pair of postponements, the Pioneers (7-4, 4-1 SAC) took the lead after doubles play and held off the Saints (4-5, 1-3 SAC), who pulled within 2-1 and 3-2 in singles before Tusculum won the final two matches.

In doubles, the Saints took the early advantage with a win at flight two, but the Pioneers came back to claim the team point as Nemanja Subanovic and Vadzim Raitsou defeated Luis Yanine and Emilio Samhan 6-2 at flight one, followed by a 6-4 win at flight three by Frank Bonacia and Kenta Kondou over the Saints' Julien Pereira and Barthelemy Bourdon.

In singles, Subanovic beat Yanine 6-3, 6-3 at flight one to put the Pioneers up 2-0, but Pereira countered with a straight-set win at flight five. Kondou rallied from a set down to beat Luis Zamorano 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 at flight three as Tusculum went up 3-1 in the match, but the Saints stayed alive as Cortes upset Bonacia, ranked 34th in singles in Division II by the ITA, in straight sets at flight two.

Robin Eldin would deliver the match for the Pioneers as he won a 6-4, 6-3 clincher at flight four over Samhan, and Marco Jalilian added a fifth point as he came back for a 3-6, 6-3, (10-1) win at flight six over Bourdon.

Tusculum's next four matches are scheduled for home, starting Friday, March 25 against ninth-ranked North Georgia starting at 1 p.m.