WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – William & Mary women's tennis battled back in singles thanks to wins from freshmen Emma Fernald and Ine Stange on Saturday afternoon against Penn at the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center.
 
The balance of the match came down four three-set affairs, and the visiting Quakers won three of the four to pull out a 5-2 victory.

Penn (5-3) opened up a 2-0 lead thanks to winning the doubles point and a victory at the No. 2 singles spot.
 
Strange got the Tribe on the board with a straight-set win at No. 5. She edged Penn's Saige Roshkoff, 7-6 (6), 6-4, to narrow the gap to 2-1. Stange improved to 7-4 overall and 3-3 in dual-match competition.
 
Despite dropping the opening set to Eileen Wang, 6-4, Fernald rallied for her 10th victory of the season to draw the Tribe even. She dropped just five games over the final two sets to pull out a  6-3, 6-2 triumph. The first three-set match of the contest came off the board to the Tribe and drew the home team even at two.
 
At No. 3 and No. 4, juniors Elisa Van Meeteren and Raffaela Alhach both took the opening set from the Quaker opponents before heading to a decisive third.
 
Penn's Gavriella Smith put the visitors back in front with a three-set victory on line four.
 
At the top spot, senior Mila Saric, fresh off her fifth nationally-ranked win last week, rallied from a set deficit to force a decisive third against another nationally-ranked foe. Penn's Juliia Bryzgalova, who is ranked No. 86 nationally, won the opening set in a tiebreaker before Saric claimed the second, 6-4. In the third, the nationally-ranked Penn player outlasted Saric, 6-3, to cement the Penn win.
 
Up Next: The Tribe returns to action on Saturday, March 5, when it hosts Liberty at 10 a.m. The contest is slated to be played outdoors in Williamsburg, weather permitting.
 
Penn 5, William & Mary 2
Singles
No. 1 – #86 Juliia Bryzgalova (Penn) def. Mila Saric (W&M) – 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-3
No. 2 – Sabine Rutlauka (Penn) def. Hedda Gurholt (W&M) – 6-3, 6-1
No. 3 – Marija Curnic (Penn) def. Elisa Van Meeteren (W&M) – 3-6, 7-5, 6-4
No. 4 – Gavriella Smith (Penn) def. Raffaela Alhach (W&M) – 4-6, 6-2, 7-5
No. 5 – Ine Stange (W&M) def. Saige Roshkoff (Penn) – 7-6 (6), 6-4
No. 6 – Emma Fernald (W&M) def. Eileen Wang (Penn) – 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
Finishing Order: 2, 5, 6, 4, 1*, 3
 
Doubles
No. 1 – #41 Bryzgalova/Curnic (Penn) def. Saric/Gurholt (W&M) – 6-0
No. 2 – Alhach/Van Meeteren (W&M) vs. Roshkoff/Smith (Penn) – DNF, 5-0
No. 3 – Rutlauka/Wang (Penn) def. Fernald/Rukutoku (W&M) – 6-1
Finishing Order: 1, 3*