BLACK MOUNTAIN, N.C.— The Montreat women's tennis squad played a team match against the No. 15-ranked Union Commonwealth University Bulldogs on Saturday. Coming off an Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) defeat against the University of Pikeville on Friday, the Cavs (1-9, 1-3 AAC) could not get back to their winning ways and lost the match, 6-1.
 
Union Commonwealth (6-3, 3-0 AAC) secured the doubles point, winning both contested matches as the Cavs forfeited the final pairing. Chiharu Ito and Ainhoa Ordonez lost their battle, 7-5. Clara Roman and Annika Rojas were also defeated. The Spanish-American pair lost, 6-1.
 
Montreat also forfeited two matches in singles play. Ordonez was the only Cavalier to win her match. She won in two sets, 6-3 and 6-4. Ito faced the 27^th-best singles player in the nation according to the latest ITA poll. Although she lost her match, she took the ranked player to three sets (6-1, 3-6, 6-3). Roman lost her match in two sets, both of which ended 6-1. Rojas' loss in singles play featured a 6-1 defeat in the first set. She couldn't pull through in set two and lost it, 6-2.
 
Ordonez played a part in 17 game wins for Montreat, leading the squad. Ito followed with 15 wins. Rojas won four, and Roman snagged three.
 
Up next, the Cavaliers travel to Columbia, S.C. on March 18 to face the Columbia College Koalas in another AAC team match.