BEAVERTON, Ore. - Moving indoors due to wet conditions and playing in the evening, the visiting Whitman College Missionaries cruised to an 8-1 victory over the George Fox University Bruins in Northwest Conference women's tennis action Sunday night here at the Tualatin Hills Tennis Center.

The Missionaries opened the match by sweeping the doubles as Elise Otto and Alyssa Roberg ran past the Bruins' Molly Beaumont and Cara Griffith 8-2 at No. 1, Emily Rolston and Kate Kunkel-Patterson put away Alyssa Emoto and Shaina Inn 8-4 at No. 2, and Lizzy Schiller and Leah Siegel shut out Liliya Abildayeva and Bethany Nguyen 8-0 at No. 3.

Whitman won five singles matches, all in straight sets, to secure the win.  Roberg knocked off Beaumont 6-2, 6-1 at No. 1; Otto ousted Emoto 6-1, 6-0 at No. 2; Rolston rolled over Griffith 6-1, 6-0 at No. 3; Kunkel-Patterson won the tightest match of the day 6-4, 6-4 over Inn at No. 4; and Hadley Scherer handled Nguyen 6-1, 6-4 at No. 6.

George Fox picked up its lone win of the match when Abildayeva knocked off Maggie Eismeier 6-1, 6-4 at No. 5.

NEXT: George Fox (2-5, NWC 1-5) will try to snap a four-game skid by stepping outside the conference for a match with Hardin-Simmons University of Abilene, Texas, and the American Southwest Conference Monday at 6:00 p.m.  The match is scheduled for the GFU campus courts following a 1:00 p.m. clash between the men's teams from George Fox and Hardin-Simmons, but both may be moved to Tualatin Hills if the weather is uncooperative. ... Whitman (6-4, NWC 6-2) will play Hardin-Simmons earlier Monday at 11:30 a.m. at the Club Green Meadows in Vancouver, Wash.