The Penn State women's tennis team (0-1) fell to rival Pennsylvania on Saturday with a 2-5 loss.

The Nittany Lions dropped the doubles point, with Penn winning two out of the three matches.

Senior Sasha Abraham and freshman Lauren McCarthy showed strong teamwork against Penn's Yulia Rivelis and Julia Koulbitskaya, winning, 8-6.

Junior Jenny Shular and senior Katelyn BeVard were defeated by Ekaterina Kosminskaya and Maria Anismova, 8-3, and sophomores Dorothy Dohanics and Leyla Morzan dropped an 8-4 loss to Charlotte Tansill and Michelle Mitchell.

In singles, Jenny Shular topped Anismova, 6-2, 6-1, while Dorothy Dohanics brought another victory against Tansill, 7-5, 6-0.

Penn came back with Rivelis topping BeVard, 6-3, 6-1, while Abraham was defeated by Kosminskaya, 6-3, 6-1. Morzan lost in a tough match to Mitchell in a thrid-set tiebreaker, 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4).

Penn State head coach Buffy Baker said that Pennsylvania is a very talented team, and it all about how much hard work can pay off.

"We did outwork them sometimes," she said. "They didn't steal that many points away from us, but we stole a lot from them."

Baker was proud of all the girls on the team especially Dorothy Dohanics and her singles performance.

"She just gets under your skin and fights," she said.