(SAN DIEGO) PLNU Women's Tennis won the doubles point and never looked back in picking up an important 4-0 victory over Biola on Tuesday afternoon.
 
"The girls came out and played well today," Head Coach Curt Wheeler said. "They started strong in doubles. Biola is a very strong team on the women's side. Every court was tough, every court was difficult in that way, but the girls played well and had great confidence."
 
After the visiting Eagles won the first doubles match to finish at No. 1, Angelique Friedrich and Joelle Lanz teamed up to even the matchup with a 6-3 victory at No. 2 to set up a winner-take-all No. 3 doubles contest.
 
Thelma Sepulveda bounced back from a minor injury that had to be looked at by the athletic training staff with great energy, while aces from Rachel Whittington helped PLNU's No. 3 duo claim a 7-5 win and the doubles point for the Sea Lions.
 
Point Loma then carried that momentum into singles play, winning all three matches that were finished.
 
Sepulveda rolled to a 6-1, 6-0 win at No. 5 before Whittington won 6-2, 6-3 at No. 6.
 
Then Lanz, with an impressive arsenal of shots and ball placement into the back corners of the court, clinched the match for PLNU with her 6-0, 6-3 victory at No. 2.
 
Friedrich won her first set at No. 3, 6-2, and was level in the second set 6-6 when the match was called.
 
Amanda Letzring won a first-set tiebreak to lead her No. 4 singles match, 1-0, before trailing in the second set, 2-3, that was left unfinished.
 
At No. 1, Arianna Audelo responded from a 3-6 first-set defeat to win the second stanza, 7-5, but her match too was stopped early once the Sea Lions reached the necessary four points to clinch the overall win.
 
Point Loma (11-4 overall) returns to the PLNU Tennis Courts on Saturday to host Azusa Pacific.
 
Back on Feb. 17 in Azusa, APU issued PLNU a 6-1 defeat, which was Point Loma's last loss before embarking on a season-high seven-match winning streak.