ORLANDO, Fla. - In a rare college women's tennis match harkening back to bye-gone days when the singles matches were played before the doubles, the Calvin College Knights edged the George Fox University Bruins 5-4 by winning the third and deciding doubles match Monday morning here at the Lake Cane Tennis Center.

The teams split the singles matches to get started, Calvin taking the top three and George Fox the bottom three in the order.  At No. 1, the Knights' Melissa Oosterhouse downed the Bruins' Molly Beaumont 6-0, 6-4; Kaitlin Spoelhof stopped Alyssa Emoto 6-2, 6-1 at No. 2; and Michelle Busscher beat Shaina Inn 6-1, 6-2 at No. 3.

George Fox picked up singles wins at No. 4 as Cara Griffith dropped Lauren Schlagenhauf 6-1, 6-4; at No. 5 as Liliya Abildayeva put away Jordan Ipema 6-1, 6-4; and at No.6, Bethany Nguyen downing Elise Doezema 7-5, 6-1.

Calvin took the No. 1 doubles as Oosterhouse and Spoelhof beat Beaumont and Griffith 8-2, but the Bruins evened the match when Emoto and Inn breezed past Busscher and Doezema 8-1.  That brought it all down to the No. 3 doubles, with the Knights pulling out an 8-5 match-clinching win, Schlagenhauf and Bethany Zoerhof edging Abildayeva and Nguyen.

The Bruins finished their spring break trip 2-2 and are now 4-8 overall.  The Knight improved to 2-3 overall.

NEXT: George Fox returns to Northwest Conference play this weekend with a pair of home matches, hosting Whitworth University Friday at 4:00 p.m. and Linfield College Saturday at 10:00 a.m.  The Linfield match was originally an away match for the Bruins, but the teams swapped home dates when the George Fox campus courts were too week on Feb. 26 ... Calvin was to face Huntingdon College later in the day Monday and then take on St. Olaf College in Orlando Wednesday at 12:00 noon.