ALBANY, N.Y. - The Yeshiva University men's tennis team headed into the holiday break in grand fashion Sunday afternoon at the Albany Academy for Boys, as the Maccabees captured their seventh-straight match to start the spring season and opened Skyline Conference play with a 6-3 decision over host The Sage Colleges.

YU (7-2, 1-0 Skyline) picked up both contested doubles matches, taking a 2-1 lead into singles play in the process. At the No. 1 flight, junior captain Jeremy Seftel (Cherry Hill, N.J.) and freshman Charles Saka (Deal, N.J.) bested Sage's (0-2, 0-2) Rob Hansen and Mike Hilton by an 8-1 score. Meanwhile, sophomores Eitan Zinberg (Woodmere, N.Y.) and Yaniv Singerman outlasted the Gators' No. 2 squad of Cory and Sean Alvarado, 8-4.

The Macs then picked up victories in the Nos. 1-through-4 singles matches to capture the team victory. Seftel knocked off Hilton at No. 1, 7-5 and 6-love, while at No. 2, Saka extended his singles winning streak to eight matches with a 6-3, 6-4 victory versus Hansen. Zinberg got a 6-1, 6-4 decision at No. 3 against Sean Alvarado, while junior Shmuel Rosenblatt (Riverdale, N.Y.) did not lose a game in defeating Sage's Mark Castillo at No. 4.

Head coach Jeff Menaker's YU side will return to Skyline action after the break on April 4, when it plays host to Purchase College for an 8 p.m. match at Binghamton Racquet Club in Edgewater, N.J.