by Dean Boerner | Sports Editor
After coming into the weekend undefeated in WCC play, the Saint Mary’s women’s tennis team fell twice to conference opponents in the span of two days. On Friday, the Gaels dropped their first conference match 4-0 to the ninth-ranked Pepperdine Waves. The next afternoon, Saint Mary’s battled LMU hard but ultimately fell to the Lions 4-3 at LMU.
Against Pepperdine (13-2, 3-0), the Gaels struggled early. Saint Mary’s nationally ranked doubles team of Jana McCord and Jamie Pawid fell 6-3 to Pepperdine’s nationally ranked team of Apichaya Runglerdkriangkrai and Luisa Stefani.