SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – The University of Missouri-St. Louis women's tennis team had its two-match winning streak snapped with a 5-2 loss at Southwest Baptist on Saturday evening at the Cooper Tennis Complex in Springfield, Mo. The Tritons fall to 5-3 while the Bearcats improve to 5-8.

SBU won two of the three doubles matches to take the opening point of the match. Paula Ballesteros and Lola Cincunegui defeated Anna Domingo and Anna Favaron in the number two doubles contest 6-3. Polina Paunova and Giselle Garcia knocked off Kaitlyn Challis and Lisa Kirr 6-4 in the third doubles match. The number one doubles match between Maja Lietzau and Hannah Tse and No. 41 Ghada Dirninger and Elsa Pascual was unfinished.

In singles play, Kirr defeated Paunova in straight sets 7-5, 6-4 at number four singles and Anna Favaron beat Cincunegui 6-2, 6-4 in the fifth singles contest. The Bearcats picked up wins in the other four singles contests. Ballesteros handed Domingo a 6-1, 6-4 loss, Lietzau fell to No. 68 Pascual in three sets 5-7, 6-2, 2-6, Tse lost to Dirninger 7-6, 6-4 and Challis lost to Leticia Lutz 6-1, 6-2.

UMSL is back in action on Sunday taking on Rockhurst at the Overland Park Racquet Club in Overland Park, Kan., at 9:45 a.m.