CLAREMONT, Calif.  Whitman College's seven-match win streak was halted Tuesday by No. 9 Amherst (Mass.) College as the Mammoths defeated the No. 11 Blues, 8-1, in a neutral-site men's tennis match at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center.

Whitman (8-3) entered Tuesday morning's match after extending its win streak with a victory over host Whittier (Calif.) College on Monday night in the first of five matches the Blues play during their spring trip.

The Mammoths (3-0) surrendered a doubles point at No. 1 to Whitman's Zach Hewlin and Robert Carter, but swept the other two doubles bouts and each of the six singles matches.

Hewlin and Carter, ITA All-Americans in doubles and ranked third nationally, earned their point for Whtiman with an 8-5 victory over Nathan Kaplan and Sean Wei.

Wei, ranked 22nd in singles, exacted revenge on Hewlin at 1-singles with a straight-set victory, however.

The Blues nearly picked up a second point during singles action with Ben Kirsh extending Amherst's Ethan Hillis to three sets.

Kirsh rolled to a 6-1 openening-set win before Hillis bounced back to square the match with a win in the second by the same count. The Mammoth's No. 2 player continued the momentum into the third and deciding set, scratching out a 6-3 win over Kirsh.

Whitman continues its spring trip with its match Wednesday against Swarthmore (Pa.) College -- ranked No. 8 in the ITA Atlantic South Region -- at the Hunt Valley Athletic Club in Pasadena.