CLAREMONT-- No. 39 UC Santa Cruz opened their weekend trip with a 7-2 loss to No. 18 Mary Washington in a dual match played at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.

The Banana Slugs took a point in the last doubles match, when No. 1 pair of Andrew Tjoa and Lucas Chen outlasted the UMW duo 8-7 with a tiebreaker. The Eagles however took the dual with wins in the first three singles. Tjoa got the Banana Slugs a point in the next-to-last match to finish with a straight-set win at No. 5.

The Banana Slugs (2-5) play again Sunday morning at CMS when they face another Virginia team in 37th-ranked Christopher Newport.
 

Singles
1	Rishi Charan-Shakar (UMW) def. Lucas Chen 6-1, 6-4
2	Andrew Watson (UMW) def. Andre Mardirossian 6-3, 6-3
3	Brock Ladeoff (UMW ) def. Sam Hall w/o
4	Peter Leese (UMW) def. Praneet Varade  7-6, 6-3
5	Andrew Tjoa (UCSC) def. Jacob Pfab 6-3, 7-5
6	Ryan Meyer (UMW) def. Ryan Lam 6-4, 6-2
	Order of finish:
Doubles
1	Tjoa/Chen (UCSC) def. Watson/ Charan-Shakar 8-7
2	Ladehoff/Cooper(UMW) def. Mardirossian /Hall (UCSC) 8-6
3	Hart/Leese (UMW) def. Varade/Lam (UCSC) 8-3
	Order of finish: 3,2, 1