SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The Marian women's tennis suffered their second straight loss on Friday night, falling 4-0 to No. 18-ranked Holy Cross. The Knights are now 15-8 overall on the season after the match.

Holy Cross picked up the doubles point quickly with two wins at the No. 3 and No. 2 spots. Emma Chrome and Joelle Leihbacher fell 6-1 to Diane Maillotte and Clara Ruediger, before Tea Vrkic and Isadora Muller dropped 6-4 to Anna Beer and Victoria Savvides. At No. 1 doubles, Betija Dusele and Katharina Bopst were trailing 6-5 before their match went unfinished.

In singles action, Holy Cross continued their dominant performance by picking up three wins to clinch the match. Muller fell 6-3, 6-1 to Mailotte at No. 4 singles, while Bopst dropped her two sets to Kia Carvalho-Landell 6-3, 6-4 at the No. 2 spot, and at No. 6 singles Vrkic dropped 6-4, 7-6 (5) to Ruedige.

On the courts that were unfinished, Dusele was leading 6-3, 2-6, 3-2 over Savvides at No. 1 singles, Chrome was ahead in her third set over Helga Lopez at 4-6, 6-2, 4-0, and Leihbacher was trailing 6-2, 0-6, 3-5.

Marian will return home on Sunday for a home match against Indiana Tech beginning at 2 p.m.

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