The #8 Middlebury women's tennis team claimed the point in doubles, but was edged 4-3 by #4 Pomona-Pitzer in a back-and-forth battle.
 
HIGHLIGHTS

• Lulu Wu and Nathalie van der Reis grabbed a 6-3 win at #3 to begin tandem play.
• The duo of Claudia Miller and Elsie Van Wieren triumphed 6-4 in the middle spot to give the Panthers a 1-0 lead.
• At #1, Nina Farhat and Sahana Raman duked it out with Marissa Markay and Angie Zhou, winning the tiebreaker 7-2 to claim the match 7-6.
• Markay avenged that loss with a straight-sets (6-4, 6-2) win in the fourth spot against van der Reis to knot the contest at 1-1.
• Wu gave the advantage back to Middlebury with a 7-5, 6-1 triumph at #3. 
• The Sagehens deadlocked the match again with a sweep in the fifth spot, but Farhat claimed both of her sets by 6-3 scores to give the Panthers a 3-2 edge.
• Despite opening victories at #1 and #2 for Middlebury, Pomona-Pitzer came from behind in both to claim the match 4-3.

NOTES

• Farhat tallied her ninth-straight singles win and seventh-consecutive doubles triumph with Raman.
• Van der Reis and Wu have claimed five doubles bouts in a row.
• The programs played for the 15th time.
• Sagehen head coach Mike Morgan served in the same capacity at Middlebury from 2006-2017.

The Panthers take on #17 Babson on Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. ET, with Redlands serving as the host.