PORTLAND, Ore. – The Portland Pilots dropped another close women's tennis dual, falling 4-3 to the San Diego Toreros on Friday at the Louisiana Pacific Tennis Center. The Toreros improve to 7-6 overall and 2-1 in West Coast Conference play, while the Pilots fall to 4-9 and 0-2 in league matches.
A day after dropping a 4-3 heartbreaker to Arizona, Portland was again clipped late in a back-and-forth match.
San Diego opened the scoring with a hard-fought doubles point. Portland's No. 2 doubles team of junior Radina Dimitrova and freshman Raphaelle Leblanc defeated Kati Kukaras and Maria-Paula Torres by a 6-2 margin, but the Toreros won 6-4 at the No.