Box Score PASADENA, C.A. - The Vassar College Women's Tennis team played its third of five matches in California on Wednesday and the Brewers suffered a hard-fought 5-4 loss to Caltech. Vassar falls to 5-3 overall while the Beavers improve to 2-2.

Yoyo Benchetrit and Nina Solovyeva opened up doubles play with a 8-5 victory over sophomore Macey Dowd and freshman Iris Li at two followed by junior Sofie Shen and rookie Erin McCusker earning a 8-3 win over Anika Arora and Emily Zhang at top doubles. Athena Kolli and Payal Patel took the win at three against senior Tatum Blalock and sophomore Elyse Duley 8-3.

Benchetrit earned the first win in singles as she defeated Blalock 6-2, 6-2 at two followed by Dowd tallying a come-from-behind 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory at three over Arora. McCusker recorded a 6-4, 6-4 win against Zhang at the top flight before Solovyeva defeated Li 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 at fourth singles. At five, Kolli triumphed over Shen 7-5, 7-5 to clinch the match victory. Freshman Ananya Krishnan earned a strong victory over Patel at six 6-7, 7-5, 10-4.

The Brewers will take on the University of Redlands on Friday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. PST.