SPOKANE, Wash. – Molly Beaumont and Shaina Inn, George Fox University's regionally-ranked doubles tandem, pulled off a hard-fought win at No. 1 doubles, but the Whitworth University Pirates picked off the Bruins in the rest of the matches for an 8-1 Northwest Conference women's tennis win Friday afternoon here at the Scotford Tennis Center.

Beaumont and Inn, ranked No. 11 in the NCAA Division III's West Region, edged Whitworth's Saryn Mooney and Taylor Pena 9-8 (7-3) for the Bruins' only point of the match, but the Pirates captured the other two doubles and never looked back.  Morgan McDivitt and Megan Wingfield downed the Bruins' Alyssa Emoto and Krista Rey 8-5 at No. 2, and Jessi Steele and K.C. McConnell knocked off Chantelle Hadeed and Ali Diehl 8-1 at No. 3.

In singles, the Bruins pushed two of the matches to three sets before the Pirates prevailed.  At No. 5, McDivitt defeated Rey 6-2, 2-6, 6-1, and at No. 1, Beaumont won the first set 6-4 before Mooney took the second by the same score.  With the overall match already decided by that time, the two played a tiebreaker set, with Mooney coming out on top 1-0 (10-3).

The Pirates swept the other four singles as Steele stopped Emoto 6-1, 6-4 at No. 2, Pena dropped Inn 6-2, 6-1 at No. 3, Wingfield won over Hadeed 6-0, 6-2 at No. 4, and McConnell downed Alissandra Wittrig 6-3, 6-2 at No. 6.

NEXT: George Fox (3-7, NWC 2-6) returns home to host Bellevue College (Wash.) in an exhibition match Sunday at 3:00 p.m.  The next counting match for the Bruins will be Tuesday when they host Linfield College for a conference clash at 3:00 p.m. ... Whitworth (4-5, NWC 4-4) hosts Pacific University Sunday at 10:00 a.m. in an NWC match.