The UW Oshkosh women’s tennis team split its two matches at the Loras College Triangular Sept. 14 after taking down Loras College (Iowa) 5-2 but falling to Wartburg College (Iowa) 2-5.

The Titans (3-2, 0-1 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) won four of the singles points and claimed the lone doubles point to beat the Duhawks (2-3).

UWO’s Olivia Pethan took down Loras’ Mary Breitbach 6-3, 6-2 in the No.1 singles match while Oshkosh’s Mana Usui beat Dorothy Deans 6-4, 6-2 in the No. 2 singles match. The Titans’ Alysa Pattee won the No. 3 singles match after claiming a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Caroline Hutchinson, but UWO’s Brianna Owens fell to Leia Papanicholas 6-3, 4-6, 10-3 in the No. 4 singles match. Oshkosh’s Vianna Dao bested Alexis Tatum 6-3, 5-7, 10-8 in the No. 5 singles match but the Titans’ Grace Brown fell to Lauren Keiper 6-1, 6-0.

The Titans swept all three doubles matches to claim the double’s point after Pethan and Pattee defeated Breitbach and Deans 7-5, and the doubles team of Usui and Owens took down Hutchinson and Papanicholas 6-3. In the final doubles match, Oshkosh’s Cate Gerl and Courtney Carpenter defeated Alexis Tatum and Lauren Keiper 6-3.

In their match against Wartburg (2-4), the Titans were only able to secure two victories in the singles matches and were swept in the doubles matches.

In the No.1 singles matches, Pethan fell to Natalie Kaiser 7-5, 4-6, 10-5 while Usui secured a point for the Titans after beating Emma Thurness in the No. 2 singles match 6-4, 6-0. Pattee took down Wartburg’s Tori Johnson 7-5, 6-1 in the No. 3 singles match but Morgan Kathman defeated Owens 6-4, 5-7, 10-8 in the No. 4 singles match. The Knights secured the final two singles matches after Dao fell to Brooke Bloom 6-2, 6-1 and Brown was bested by Riley McClellan 7-5, 6-3.

Wartburg swept the Titans in the doubles matches after Pattee and Pethan fell to the Knights’ Reese Williams and Natalie Kaiser 6-1 and doubles partners Owens and Usui were defeated by Thurness and Johnson 7-5. In the final doubles match, Carpenter and Gerl fell to Bloom and Kathman 6-1.

The Titans will head to De Pere to take on St. Norbert College at the Green Bay Tennis Center Sept. 21 at noon.