NEWBERG, Ore. – With four singles matches going to a third set, and with two tiebreakers needed in one of them, the Pacific Lutheran University Lutes took a tightly-contested Northwest Conference women's tennis match from the visiting George Fox University Bruins Friday evening here at the Sprinker Tennis Center.

George Fox got doubles wins from Molly Beaumont and Shaina Inn 9-7 over PLU's Samantha Lund and Payton McGriff at No. 1, and from Krista Rey and Ali Diehl 8-5 over Catherin Miolla and Valery Jorgensen at No. 3 to take an early 2-1 lead.  The Lutes' Leah Newell and Tina Aarsvold took the No. 2 doubles 8-2 over the Bruins' Alyssa Emoto and Bethany Nguyen.

In singles, Lund beat Beaumont 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 at No. 1, Newell topped Emoto 6-4, 6-2 at No. 2, and Allison McClure took the measure of Ali Wittrig 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 at No. 6.  The Bruins got victories from Inn over McGriff 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 at No. 3, and from Rey over Niolla 6-3, 7-6 (7-0) at No. 5, evening the match 3-3 and setting a showdown at No. 4.

Going against the Bruins' Chantelle Hadeed, Aarsvold won the No. 4 opening set 6-4 before Hadeed took the second set 7-6 (8-6). With the team victory hanging in the balance, the two players battled to another tiebreaker, with Aarsvold coming out on top 7-6 (8-6) to keep PLU unbeaten at 3-0 overall and in the conference.  George Fox slipped to 0-3 overall and 0-2 in the NWC.

NEXT: George Fox visits Linfield College Saturday at 12:00 noon while Pacific Lutheran hosts Willamette Univesity Saturday at 1:00 p.m.