WALLA WALLA, Wash. It took two different home courts and two hours, but when all was said and done, Whitman's Hanna Greenberg and Andrea Gu earned the ITA/Oracle Northwest Division III Fall Regional women's doubles championship, winning a third-set tiebreaker to punch their ticket to the Small College ITA/Oracle national championship in Rome, Georgia, in October.

Monday's main draw doubles championship pitted the Blues duo against Ella Riddle and Basia Kopecka from Linfield.

Riddle -- who won the singles championship match earlier on Monday, after winning a 9 a.m. three-set semifinal -- won the doubles title last fall with a different partner. Riddle and Kopecka entered the tournament as the top seed and marched into Monday's final surrendering just eight games in the four matches leading up to the title bout.

Greenberg and Gu, though, were almost as dominant after reaching the final by dropping only 12 games in their four wins.

The late-afternoon match began outdoor on the Whitman Tennis Courts, and the home crowd and home court seemed to favor the Blues pairing as they raced out to a 6-2 first-set victory.

Set number two started off back and forth, however, and stayed that way until the end.

There was also the extra burden of dealing with a rain interruption.

Greenberg and Gu were up 3-2 when the rain began to fall, and after a brief delay and no let up in the weather the match was moved into the Bratton Indoor Tennis Center for completion.

Riddle and Kopecka held serve once inside, to pull even, again, at 4-4, and from there the two pairings traded games until a 6-6 tie forced a tiebreaker.

Whitman's duo scored two points to rally from a point down and take a 2-1 lead in the tiebreaker, but Riddle and Kopecka reeled off six consecutive points to win the tiebreaker and force a third-set super-tiebreaker.

Linfield took the first point in the match tiebreaker, but like with the second set the teams traded points early, up to a 2-2 tie.

With Linfield serving Greenberg and Gu were able to break through for consecutive points and a 4-2 lead. Linfield earned a point back off a Gu service but five consecutive Whitman points perched the Blues on the precipice of the championship.

The Wildcats twosome earned one point back, but that would be all Greenberg and Gu would allow as they put the set and match away on the next service point to capture the title along with earning ITA All-American recognition.

"I don't really know what to say, this just seems so surreal," a stunned Greenberg tried explaining.

Gu had trouble finding the right words as well, "I don't know how, but I just lost my voice!" she near-silently mouthed.

Words weren't necessary, though, as Greenberg, a senior, and Gu, a sophomore matched each other's ear-to-ear grins, and have advanced to the Small College Oracle Cup on October 11-15.

Whitman's success over the weekend wasn't limited to the main draws as it also included a stellar showing from a pair of Blues playing in the singles consolation bracket.

Jenna Gilbert and Lorin DeMuth were defeated in the first round of the main singles draw Saturday morning, but both came back with noteworthy performances in the Yellow Flight consolation bracket.

Gilbert had a bye in the flight's opening round, but DeMuth played her way into the second round with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Puget Sound's Mei Roen.

Both Whitman players advanced into the third round -- Gilbert with an 8-6 win over Madelyn Landerfelt (Linfield) and DeMuth with an 8-0 win over Rochelle Schoenthal (Pacific) -- only to see each other on the opposite side of the net for their third-round match.

Gilbert took the win, 8-1, to advance to the flight's championship match, where she routed Whitworth's Madelyn Parkey, 8-1, for the yellow flight consolation title.