The Lake Forest College women's tennis team split a pair of matches at home on Saturday, defeating Cornell College 7-0 before falling 5-2 to Grinnell College.

The Foresters earned the doubles point against Cornell thanks to a 6-0 blanking of the Rams' top tandem by sophomore Sofia Strupovets and freshman Lilli Dockal and a 6-1 victory at #3 by sophomores Anika Kinnear and senior Emily Bross.

All six singles matches went to the home team, beginning with Dockal's 6-1, 6-0 rout at #2. Fifth-year Margaret Bugnacki took both sets 6-1 at #3 and Strupovets clinched the team victory with a 6-3, 6-1 win at #1. Sophomore Kate Feist finished off a 6-3, 6-2 triumph at #4, Kinnear prevailed 6-4, 6-2 at #5, and sophomore Olivia Pandazi closed out the contest by edging out her counterpart at #6 by a score of 6-4, 6-7 (1-7), (10-7).

The victory was the ninth in a row for the Foresters, which is the seventh-longest run in team history. Cornell fell to 7-3 overall and 4-2 in Midwest Conference play.

With the match against Grinnell set to decide the 2024 league title, the Pioneers started strong by taking the doubles point, despite a 6-1 victory by Strupovets and Dockal at #1.

Early in singles play rain forced the teams to move from Lake Forest's on-campus courts indoors to the Racquet Club of Lake Bluff.

The Foresters evened the team score at one when Dockal finished off a convincing 6-1, 6-3 victory at #2. After Grinnell earned points at #4 and #3, Strupovets came back to win 6-7 (2-7), 6-1, 6-3 to make the score 3-2 in favor of the visitors. Unfortunately for Lake Forest, the Pioneers came out on top in the other two singles matches to clinch the match and the conference title.

The loss dropped the Foresters' overall record to 9-1 and league mark to 5-1. Grinnell improved to 9-0 overall and finished 6-0 in MWC play.

Both teams will travel to Madison, Wisconsin, for next weekend's MWC Individual Tournaments.