Box Score

WALLA WALLA, Wash. – In a rare mid-week Northwest Conference contest, the George Fox University Bruins dropped a women's tennis match 8-1 to the Whitman College Missionaries, ranked 11th in the NCAA Division III West Region, Tuesday afternoon here at the Bratton Tennis Center.

Whitman's Margo Lentz and Emily Rolston swept through the No. 1 doubles 8-0 over Corinne Borrelli and Mollee Robinson, but the visiting Bruins put up a strong fight in the other two doubles.  At No. 2, the Missionaries' Katie Oost and Amanda Alexander were pushed hard by Courtney Banks and Betsy Ann Penman before prevailing 8-5.  At No. 3, Whitman's Jacquie Frank and Alex Robinson hung on for a 9-8 (7-4) win over Shanna Lesire and Liliya Abildayev. 

Penman secured the Bruins' one win with a split-sets victory over Robinson 2-6, 6-3, 1-0 (10-7) at No. 5 singles.  Whitman winners in the other singles were Hadley DeBree over Banks 6-0, 6-4 at No. 1; Oost over Borrelli 6-1, 6-1 at No. 2; Lentz over Robinson 6-0, 6-2 at No. 3; Rolston over Lesire 6-2, 6-3 at No. 4; and Frank over Abildayev 7-6 (10-8), 6-0 at No. 6. 

George Fox (2-8, NWC 2-7) is back at home Saturday, hosting Pacific Lutheran University at 11:00 a.m.  Whitman (7-3, NWC 7-2) visits Lewis & Clark College Friday at 4:00 p.m.