SANFORD, Fla. – The Wheaton College (Mass.) women's tennis team boasted four double-winners in an 8-1 victory over Loras College this afternoon at Sylvan Lake Park in Sanford, Fla.

The Lyons improve to 6-3 on the season, while the Duhawks fall to 9-5.

Wheaton won five of six singles to clinch the dual match and added a sweep of the doubles matches.

First year Asia Hollis (Hamilton, Bermuda) won in straight sets at number three singles for Wheaton over senior Clair Moore (Quincy, Ill.), 6-2, 6-3. Sophomore Alissa Ortiz (El Paso, Texas) battled to a 7-5 first set win, before cruising in the second frame, 6-2, to overcome sophomore Ellie Kalina (Slinger, Wis.) at fifth singles. Hollis and Ortiz also paired to post an 8-2 victory over Moore and junior Leia Papanicholas (St. Charles, Ill.) at number two doubles.

Junior Izzy Kruse (Woodstock, Ga.) and senior Zoe West (Queens, N.Y.) were both double winners as well for the Lyons. Kruse won in straight sets at number four singles over Papanicholas, 6-3, 7-5, while West gutted out a three-set triumph at sixth singles. Loras sophomore Jessie Yelaska (Walkerton, Ind.) took the opening set, 7-5, before West won the middle set, 7-6 (4) and the clinching frame, 10-5 in pro-set form. Kruse and West had little trouble at number three doubles with an 8-2 outcome over Yelaska and Kalina.

First year Taylor Wilson (Dover, N.H.) made the move to number two singles for Wheaton and responded with a 6-4, 6-1 victory over junior Dorothy Deans (Dane, Wis.). 

The Lyons pulled out an 8-7 (1) win at number one doubles behind senior Mareike Mueller (Amesbury, Mass.) and sophomore Kara Greenlee (San Antonio, Texas) over Breitbach and Deans.

Breitbach cruised at number one singles for Loras to register its only point of the dual match. She dropped just one game in a 6-1, 6-0 effort over Wheaton first year Laila Haraj-Sai (Madison, Conn.). 

The Lyons return to action on Thursday, March 14 when they play Emerson College at 11:00 a.m. in a New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference match at the United States Tennis Association National Campus in Orlando, Fla., while the Duhawks take on Anderson University tomorrow at the USTA campus at 11:00 a.m.