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Allison Torres watching her shot
George Rodriguez
4
Winner Westmont College WC (1-4)
2
Biola University BU-WT (1-1)
Winner
Westmont College WC
(1-4)
4
Final
2
Biola University BU-WT
(1-1)

Match Recap: Women's Tennis | | Brandon Taylor, Assistant Sports Information Director

A Few Points Away

Biola Women’s Tennis only needed the ball to bounce its way a few more times to defeat Westmont on Tuesday.


LA MIRADA, Calif. --- Biola Women's Tennis played another classic caught on camera at the Biola Tennis Center on Tuesday afternoon. The Eagles won a close doubles decision against the Westmont Warriors and then pushed three singles matches to a third set as the dual carried well beyond two hours.

Freshmen Brooke Fager and Colbeyshae Emery gave the Eagles a fighting chance with impressive play in their respective third sets. But Westmont's No. 1 was just able to clip Emery before she could force a superbreaker and the Warriors won the dual match, 4-2. 

Veterans Allison Torres and Ines Diaz got Biola off to a strong start with a convincing 6-1 at the No. 3 line that was completed before the other courts had entered their third changeover. Fager and Emery worked hard and played long games to give the Eagles a fighting chance at No. 1 until Westmont's win there made the No. 2 the decider for the doubles point with the score at 5-5. 

Anna Hartmann and Lauren Lee weren't going to lose, though. The duo played smart tennis and mixed in the right amount of aggressiveness at the net to win the next two games and award Biola the doubles point. It was the second-straight doubles win to begin the season for the new pair, matching then with Diaz/Torres, who are also 2-0.

Torres also delivered a quick 6-0, 6-1 win at No. 6 singles to put the Eagles up 2-0 with a set advantage on courts two and three. The senior won both her singles and doubles matches for the second time in as many matches this season after accomplishing the feat three times in 2019. But the Warriors wouldn't allow another Biola player to repeat what Torres did so easily. Westmont came back to even the match with singles win on courts four and five and earned third sets on the first three courts. 

Fager and Emery played successful comebacks in the midst of Westmont's resurgence. Fager went down a break early in her first set but was still able to win it by rattling off three-straight games. Then Emery posted a nice 6-2 win in her second set after dropping the opening stanza at No. 1 (1-6). 

Emery played a number of 20-plus stroke rallies with Cade Pierson in the third set to make things particularly tense. It just didn't seem to faze the freshman at all because she won back-to-back games in the third to even the set at 5-5 and rattled her opponent to the point that Pierson called for the umpire. But Pierson held on long enough at the end of the third with conservative tennis to come out on top and forced Fager to leave her match unfinished on three despite holding a 4-2 lead in the decisive set.

The Eagles will try to win their first home match of the season on Friday when Biola hosts Lewis & Clark (OR) at 4 p.m. 

 
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