Claremont, Calif. - The No. 4 Amherst Women's Tennis team won all three doubles matches, two via tiebreaker, and went on to capture a 6-3 win over No. 8 Pomona-Pitzer on Monday at Pauley Tennis Complex. 

With the loss, the Sagehens slip to 5-3 on the year with all three losses coming to teams in the top 10 (No. 2 Emory, No. 4 Amherst, No. 7 Carnegie Mellon). Amherst, which was playing its first match of the spring, levels its record at 1-1 for the 2014-15 season (after dropping a 5-4 match to Williams in the fall). 

Doubles proved to be the difference as Amherst won 9-8 at both No. 1 and No. 2 and 8-6 at No. 3 to take a 3-0 lead. Vickie Ip and Sue Ghosh won at No. 1 for the final doubles point 7-3 in the tiebreaker, after Megan Adamo and Simone Aisiks won the tiebreaker at No. 2 by a 7-4 score. 

Freshman Emily Kuo, who won a long three-set match for the clincher in yesterday's 5-4 win over No. 6 Bowdoin, gave Pomona-Pitzer some momentum back with a 6-0, 6-3 win at No. 6 singles to close the lead to 3-1, but Sarah Monteagudo picked up a win at No. 5 and Ip provided the clincher at No. 1 with a 7-5, 6-3 win. 

Freshman Maryann Zhao (pictured) and Grace Hruska earned singles wins as well at No. 3 and No. 4. Zhao pulled her match out in three sets 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, while Hruska picked up a win after her opponent retired early in the third set after Amherst clinched the team victory.

Pomona-Pitzer will be back in action tomorrow for a 1 p.m. match against Vassar, which will take place around a men's doubleheader against Trinity (Conn.) at 10 a.m. and Amherst at 3 p.m.