(SAN DIEGO) The slimmest of margins separated PLNU Women's Tennis and No. 19 Azusa Pacific on Saturday afternoon.
 
Nothing highlighted that more than doubles court No. 2.
 
After Thelma Sepulveda and Rachel Whittington claimed a 6-3 win at No. 3, APU won the No. 1 doubles match to set up a winner-take-all No. 2 matchup.
 
Joelle Lanz and Angelique Friedrich held set point, leading 7-6 in a tiebreak, before the Cougars won three-straight points to snatch the doubles point away from the Sea Lions.
 
That doubles point proved to be the difference in the match, with APU claiming a narrow 4-3 win over PLNU.
 
The visitors won the first two singles matches to finish at No. 1 and 3, needing just one more victory to clinch the overall match.
 
But the hosts delayed that outcome, with Whittington (6-1, 6-2), Lanz (6-3, 6-4) and Sepulveda (7-6, 6-2) winning at No. 6, 2 and 4 respectively to level the match at 3-3.
 
Amanda Letzring then forced a third set at No. 5, bouncing back from a 7-5 first-set defeat to win the second set, 6-4.
 
But APU ultimately claimed the third and final set, 6-4, to win the match.
 
Point Loma (11-5 overall) will look to avenge its March 18 defeat to Concordia on Tuesday when the Sea Lions travel to take on the Golden Eagles in Irvine at 1 p.m.