HILTON HEAD, S.C. — No. 2 Washington University in St. Louis claimed the doubles point and won three of the first five singles matches to defeat No. 9 Babson College, 4-2, in a battle of top-10 women's tennis programs Sunday morning at the Van Der Meer Tennis Center.

With the loss, Babson had a three-match winning streak against ranked opponents snapped and dropped to 4-1 on the season. Wash U. won its fifth straight match, including four over top-10 opponents, to up its record to 10-1 overall.

Senior Matia Cristiani (San Salvador, El Salvador) and first-year Sandra Sikharulidze (Kyiv, Ukraine) won the clash at No. 1 doubles and captured matches in the top two singles flight for the Beavers.

Sophomore Ally Lin (Katy, Texas) was only Bears' player to win in both singles and doubles, taking the number four singles match after pairing with senior Eliana Hanna (La Canada, Calif.) for a win at number two doubles.

Lin and Hanna, who are ranked 11th in Division III in doubles, took their match over junior Danal Kamal (Cairo, Egypt) and sophomore Alessandra Cristiani (San Salvador, El Salvador) at number two, 6-1. Babson countered with Matia Cristiani and Sikharulidze, who are ranked ninth in Division III, winning the number one doubles battle over the seventh-ranked duo of junior Eleanor Archer (Amarillo, Texas) and sophomore Caitlin Bui (Bayside, N.Y.), 6-2, but the Bears clinched the doubles point when the 18th-ranked tandem of sophomore Sam Slowik (Durham, N.C.) and first-year Lily Brecknock (Oak Park, Ill.) knocked off Babson sophomore Sarai Dorismond (Carlsbad, Calif.) and first-year Jolie Wang (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) at number three, 6-2.

After Bui and Lin posted straight-set singles wins at numbers three and four, Babson got on the board with victories in the top two singles flights. Matia Cristiani, ranked No. 1 in Division III, defeated eighth-ranked Hanna in the number one flight, 7-6, 6-3, and Sikharulidze posted a 6-4, 6-4 victory over 17th-ranked Archer at number two to cut the score to 3-2.

The Bears closed out the team victory as senior Nina Moravek (Gig Harbor, Wash.) needed three sets to defeat sophomore Mia Sorrentino (Miami, Fla.) at number six, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1. The match at number five went unfinished, with Babson first-year Tina Lui (Plantation, Fla.) winning the first set and Wash U. senior Amber Edmonds (Bellevue, Wash.) leading the second set, 5-4.

Babson returns to action on Tuesday against No. 4 Wesleyan at 12 p.m. in Bluffton, S.C. Wash U. is off until a match at Mary Washington on March 27 in Fredericksburg, Va.