BERKELEY - Andre Goransson completed another 4-3 victory for No. 11 California on Wednesday night, when the Golden Bears rallied to defeat No. 48 Yale under the lights at the Hellman Tennis Complex. The win kicked off a six-match homestand for the Bears, who improved their record to 12-5.
 
Yale's record is now 14-4.

Cal – ranked 11th in the two national polls – won the doubles point to lead 1-0 and later led 2-1 in singles. But the Bulldogs won the next two matches to take a 3-2 lead.
 
Freshman Connor Heap had a rally of his own on court six, losing the first set but then eventually winning, 6-7(5), 6-3, 7-5, over Yale's Dennis Wang to tie the overall match at 3-3. Goransson lost his first set by the same score as Heap lost his, and Goransson likewise prevailed in three sets, 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-1 over the Bulldogs' Ziqi Wang on court two to give Cal the match.
 
"Tonight was another exciting college tennis match," Cal head coach Peter Wright said. "Yale did a great job of bouncing back after we won the doubles point, and at one point they really looked to be in control of the match. It took a great effort from Connor Heap and Andre Goransson to come back from losing their first sets for us to win this match."
 
The Bears' last five matches at Hellman have yielded 4-3 results, with Cal winning three of those five. Counting a 4-3 loss at Stanford on March 7, Cal's last six matches in the San Francisco Bay Area have ended 4-3.
 
On Wednesday in doubles, Cal got off to a good start when the fourth-ranked pair of senior All-Americans Filip Bergevi and Florian Lakat beat Yale's Alex Hagermoser and Stefan Doehler, 6-2, on court one. Yale won the next match, as Cal junior J.T. Nishimura and freshman Bjorn Hoffmann lost to Tyler Lu and Photos Photiades, 6-4, on court three. Court two also featured Goransson taking on Wang, with the Cal senior and Billy Griffith – ranked 65th – knocking off Wang and Dylan King, 6-2, to clinch the point.
 
Hoffman doubled Cal's lead with a 6-3, 6-2 result over Andrew Heller at court five singles.
 
But the Bulldogs won the next three matches to take their 3-2 lead, until Heap – a late addition to the singles lineup – and Goransson lifted the Bears to victory.
 
"We need strong performances from our guys in this six-match homestand in order to establish ourselves as one of the top teams in the conference and the country," Wright said. "We face a stiff challenge from Illinois this Saturday and then we start the Pac-12 season, so we're incredibly focused on the process of getting one day better every time we practice."

The Bears host No. 25 Illinois at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Hellman.

No. 11/11 California (12-5) defeated No. 48 Yale (14-4), 4-3
March 22, 2017, in Berkeley, Calif.
Hellman Tennis Complex
 
Doubles
1. No. 4 Filip Bergevi/Florian Lakat (Cal) def. Alex Hagermoser/Stefan Doehler (Yale), 6-2
2. No. 65 Andre Goransson/Billy Griffith (Cal) def. Ziqi Wang/Dylan King (Yale), 6-2*
3. Tyler Lu/Photos Photiades (Yale) def. Bjorn Hoffmann/J.T. Nishimura (Cal), 6-4
 
Cal won the doubles point
 
Order of Finish: 1, 3, 2*
 
*Clinched the doubles point
 
Singles
1. No. 103 Tyler Lu (Yale) def. No. 14 Florian Lakat (Cal), 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
2. No. 48 Andre Goransson (Cal) def. Ziqi Wang (Yale), 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-1^
3. Dylan King (Yale) def. No. 71 Billy Griffith (Cal), 2-6, 6-3, 6-4
4. Stefan Doehler (Yale) def. No. 108 Filip Bergevi (Cal), 7-5, 7-5
5. Bjorn Hoffmann (Cal) def. Andrew Heller (Yale), 6-3, 6-2
6. Connor Heap (Cal) def. Dennis Wang (Yale), 6-7(5), 6-3, 7-5
 
Order of Finish: 5, 4, 3, 1, 6, 2^
 
^Clinched the overall match