Tusculum College made it eight straight victories with a 7-2 win at Newberry College in a South Atlantic Conference men's tennis match on Sunday afternoon at Newberry High School.

The Pioneers (11-3, 4-1 SAC) put away the match by winning the final three singles contests after the Wolves (8-7, 5-3 SAC) had pulled within 4-2 in singles play. The decisive point came from flight four of singles, where David Siegle beat Carols Nicolopulos by a 6-4, 6-3 score.

Tusculum bolted to a 3-0 lead in doubles play as the regionally-ranked team of Lukas and Jonas Winkelmann beat Vinicius Botelho and Michael Saunders 8-5, Siegle and Joseph Elphingstone downed Fernando Espana and Nicolopulos 8-6 and Leon Seiz teamed with Nicolas Planchard for an 8-4 win over Jeffery Kiser and Mohammed Chakir.

Lukas Winkelmann improved to 14-0 with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Saunders at flight one, but wins from Botelho and Espana cut the margin to 4-2. Espana's victory came after he rallied from a set down and won two tiebreakers. However, Siegle's win combined with victories by Seiz (6-4, 6-2 over Chakir) and Elphingstone (2-6, 6-1, 10-6 over David Sons) sent the Pioneers home with another victory.

The Pioneers will return to action Tuesday afternoon at Carson-Newman, beginning at 1 p.m.