Box Score

TACOMA, Wash. – After dropping two of the three doubles matches, the George Fox University Bruins stormed back to sweep all six singles matches for a 7-2 victory over the University of Puget Sound Loggers in a Northwest Conference women's tennis match Friday afternoon here at the UPS Tennis Pavilion.

The Loggers opened up by winning the top two doubles, Sam Taylor and Madison Holtz edging the Bruins' Mollee Robinson and Corinne Borrelli 8-6 at No. 1, and Alissa Wolf and Ada Yu topping Courtney Banks and Betsy Ann Penman 8-4 at No. 2.  The Bruins' comeback started with a win at No. 3 doubles as Shanna Lesire and Liliya Abildayev shaded Ashley Dombrow and Devin Fields 8-4.

The singles matches proved to be quite competitive as three of them split sets, but the Bruins persevered in every one.  Borrelli took the measure of Taylor 6-4, 6-7, 6-1 at No. 1; Robinson prevailed over Wolf 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 at No. 2; Banks beat Holtz 6-4, 6-0 at No. 3; Lesire downed Yu 6-2, 6-1 at No. 4; Penman pounded Rochelle Hebert 6-0, 6-2 at No. 5; and Abildayev nudged Jessica Gauger 4-6, 6-4, 1-0 (10-6) at No. 6.

George Fox (2-5, NWC 2-5) heads home to host the College of Idaho in a non-conference match Saturday at 6:00 p.m. at the Tualatin Hills Tennis Center in Beaverton, Ore.  Puget Sound (1-6, NWC 1-6) hosts Lewis & Clark Saturday.