Box Score IRVINE, Calif. — Biola Men's Tennis went down to Irvine Friday for a long, taxing battle with PacWest Conference foe Concordia University Irvine. The Eagles picked up the win in two doubles matches to grab the doubles point, but then came up empty in four of six singles matchups to drop the match to CUI, 4-3.

The Eagles seemed dominant in doubles action, getting a pair of 6-2 victories at the top-2 spots as Alexei Prokopchuk and Antonio Rosales Varona combined for their eighth win of the year at the one spot and Sebastian Herrera and Carlos Solorzano kept the good times rolling with a ninth win together at No. 2.

The third doubles match went unfinished as BU clinched the point early.

Concordia caught itself when singles play began, though, using straight-set wins at No. 1 and No. 3 to take a 2-1 advantage overall in the match. Among the four sets in those CUI wins, three of them were decided by the minimum of two games.

Biola's first singles victory came courtesy Prokopchuk. He had to play a bit of extra tennis to win his first set 7-6, taking the tiebreaker by a score of 7-3. He made quick work in the clinching second-set, though, winning 6-3.

CUI jumped back out ahead 3-2 with a three-set victory at the No. 4 spot. It was quite a battle there between Tomas Gomez and his opponent. Gomez lost the first by the minimum of two games and then earned a split with a tiebreaker win in the second set (8-6). Unfortunately, he could not muster enough fight in the third set, dropping it 6-2.

Alex Sedeno knotted things up with a straight-set win at No. 5, in a match that also included a tiebreaker to show just how close this match was up and down the lineup. 

The absolute prime example of the miniscule difference between sides was the match that ended up being the clincher for Concordia. In Isaac Cordova's battle at No. 6 all three sets were split by just two games. Cordova dropped the first 6-4, won the second 7-5 and then came up just short with a 6-4 decision in the third. It was Isaac's first loss at the No. 6 flight all season long.

The tough luck 4-3 decision drops this Biola team to 10-3 overall and snaps what was a seven-match streak of wins. Biola's next match is this coming Monday when they host a No. 6 Hawaii Pacific Sharks (6-0) team they're looking to answer back to from a loss earlier this season.