TACOMA, Wash. – Breezing through their opening match on the West Coast for spring break, East Texas Baptist University won, 7-2, over the University of Puget Sound. ETBU is now 8-3 on the year.
 
ETBU dropped one match in doubles play winning matches number two and three. Isabelle Duarte and Shyan Darr won at number two, 8-4, and then Keelie Stamson and Andrea Alvarez were given a victory by default.
 
Taking five of the six singles matches, there were two tiebreaking matches as ETBU went 1-1 in them. ETBU fell in the number one doubles tiebreaker but then Duarte won the number three match, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, for a point. ETBU the won at number two singles, 6-3, 6-4, as Alvarez earned a point. Grayce Malone then won the number four match, 6-3, 6-3, followed by Stamson taking number five, 6-3, 6-1. Darr won by default at number six for the seventh point.
 
ETBU will play next on Sunday at George Fox University in Newberg, Ore.