SURPRISE, Ariz. – Dominican women's tennis battled through adversity challenging Stanislaus State in the final match of the PacWest Championships, but ultimately fell 4-1 Friday afternoon.

The Warriors (8-11) won the doubles point behind Emma Yu and Abbigail Mulick's 6-0 victory on court one and Katrine Damkjaer and Parker Orlando's 6-1 victory on court two. Emi Mikami gave them a second team point winning 6-0, 6-2 in No. 6 singles, but the Penguins trimmed the deficit in half as Deepalakshmi Vanaraja won 6-1, 6-4 in No. 2 singles. Parker Orlando struggled to close for Stanislaus State as Ana Rios continued to battle for each point but Orlando held on for a 6-3, 6-2 victory. 

The remainder of the matches were tight, Damkjaer won 6-4 in the first set with Kaylee Lopez leveling the match with a 6-2 win in the second set for Dominican. Lorenza Foster-Simbulan answered a 6-1 loss in the first set with a 6-1 win in the second to keep the Penguins hopes alive. The top court was a battle between Yu and Dominican's Maria Gavrilov. After Yu took an early lead Gavrilov answered to tie it up 3-3 in the first set, but Yu closed out for a 6-3 victory. Gavrilov got off to a strong start in the second set leading 2-0, but Yu answered wining the next three games to take a 3-2 lead. Gavrilov broke back and held serve to take a 4-3 lead and the duo continued to trade games from there heading into a tiebreaker. The tiebreaker followed suit with the rest of the set as Gavrilov took a lead and Yu would battle back. Yu found herself up 6-5 with a chance to clinch the match for her team and Gavrilov buried a forehand into the corner to level it once more. Yu finally put together the two points she needed to close out winning 7-6 (8) to end the Penguins' season.