ALLIANCE, OHIO -- The defending Ohio Athletic Conference champion Baldwin-Wallace College women's tennis lost at host the University of Mount Union, 5-4, today (Friday, April 2, 2012) at the Mount Union Courts. The Yellow Jacket loss ended a two-match winning streak. 

With its loss, B-W is now 6-10 overall and 1-2 in the OAC. Mt. Union is 9-4 overall and 2-0 in the OAC 

B-W gained an early 2-1 lead after the doubles competition, but Mt. Union won four of the six singles matches. The match came down to fifth singles. With the match score tied at 4-4, Mt. Union's Courtney Adamsky bested Yellow Jacket sophomore Whitney Yoder (Medina) by the scores of 7-5 and 7-6 with a 10-8 tie-breaker to give the Purple Raiders the victory.

In doubles action for B-W, the number two tandem of senior Jenny Greene (Worthington/ Thomas Worthington) and junior Danielle Rueger (Ashland) won by an 8-3 score and the No.3 duo of Yoder and senior Emily Brown (Vermilion) won by an 8-4 count. In singles play for the Yellow Jackets, Greene won at No.1 by the scores of 6-4 and 6-4 and Rueger won at No.4 by the scores of 6-4 and 7-5.

The Yellow Jackets return to action on Tuesday, April 10 when they travel to Columbus, Ohio to play Capital University at 3:30 p.m. The next home match is Wednesday, April 11 when B-W hosts NCAA Division II Tiffin University at the "Pop" Collins Courts in Berea at 3:30 p.m.

FOR MORE B-W SPORTS INFORMATION, please contact SID Kevin Ruple by telephone at 440-826-2327 and e-mail at kruple@bw.edu and Assistant SID Jeff Miller by telephone at 440-826-2780 and e-mail at jefmille@bw.edu. Fans can access the latest B-W athletics information at www.bw.edu/athletics and we invite you to join us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/bwyellowjackets and Twitter at http://twitter.com/bwathletics.

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Baldwin-Wallace College at the University of Mount Union
Tennis Aggate Results
Friday, April 6, 2012 in Alliance, Ohio

FINAL SCORE:   Mount Union -- 5, Baldwin-Wallace -- 4

SINGLES RESULTS:  

No.1: Jenny Greene (B-W) defeated Krissy Hallett (MU), 6-4, 6-4; No.2: Mandy Wise (MU) def. Rebecca Mittler (B-W), 6-4, 6-2; No.3: Hannah Arvidson (MU) def. Morgan Baker (B-W), 6-2, 6-1; No.4: Danielle Rueger (B-W) def. Mehan Czuchra (MU) , 6-4, 7-5;  No.5: Courtney Adamsky (MU) def. Whitney Yoder (B-W), 7-5, 7-6 (10-8);  No.6: MacKenzie Jenkins (MU) def. Rachel Bertrand (B-W), 6-2, 6-0. 

DOUBLES RESULTS:  

No.1: Czuchra/ Hallett (MU) defeated Mittler/ Baker (B-W), 8-2;  No.2: Greene/ Rueger (B-W) def. Arvidson/ Wise (MU), 8-3;  No.3: Yoder/ Emily Brown (B-W) def. Adamsky/ Taylor Dowling (MU), 8-4.