WALLA WALLA, Wash.  The first couple of games in the doubles matches looked promising for the visiting Loggers from the University of Puget Sound, but once 28th-ranked Whitman got going it was like a boulder rolling downhill as the Blues raced to a 9-0 win in Northwest Conference women's tennis action at the Bratton Indoor Tennis Center.

The victory elevates Whitman's league mark to 10-1 and its overall record to 12-5. Puget Sound slips to 5-5 and 7-7, respectively.

The Loggers picked up early games in two of the three doubles matches, only to feel the sting of a nationally-ranked squad.

Barclay Fagg and Bridget Myers earned the opening game of their 2-doubles match against Whitman's Mary Hill and Allie Wallin. But that would prove to be the height of the Loggers pair's match as Hill and Wallin won out to record an 8-1 victory.

That doubles point came shortly after the No. 3 pairing of Lori Sheng and Jenna Gilbert had dismissed UPS' Tressa Bild and Tamara Runnicles, 8-4, surrendering games only after building a 4-0 lead.

The No. 1 Whitman pairing of Hanna Greenberg and Andrea Gu brushed off Nicole Bouche and Lisa Owen, 8-1, to sweep the doubles points for the Blues.

In singles action Nos. 3 through 6 each won in straight sets as Wallin, Greenberg, Sheng and Gilbert, respectively, dropped a combined total of eight games during their dominating victories.

Hill also won in two sets, but she was forced into a tiebreak in her second set before earning a 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) win at 2-singles.

Gu's opponent, Owen, lasted the longest on the courts for UPS. Owen bounced back from an opening-set loss to square the match with a win in the second, only to feel the wrath of Gu in the third-set super-tiebreaker where Gu pounded out a 10-2 win to secure the match and point.

Whitman is back on the court Sunday in Walla Walla, taking on visiting Pacific Lutheran University in the regular season finale at 10 a.m. The match will also honor graduating senior Allie Wallin in a brief pre-match ceremony.