SPOKANE, Wash.  Singles wins from Mary Hill, Anastasiya Redkina, Kattie Pak and Hanna Greenberg rallied Whitman in its 6-3 Northwest Conference women's tennis victory over Whitworth University on Saturday.

The win also clinched the No. 2 seed for the league's postseason conference tournament that begins in one week.

The 32nd-ranked Blues (8-9, 7-1 NWC) fell behind the Pirates (8-9, 4-4) after the doubles matches, managing only an 8-4 win in the No. 2 spot by Redkina and Pak.

Hill began the come-back with a 6-4, 6-2 triumph at No. 1 that evened the match score at 2-2, and Redkina picked up another point with a 1 and 1 win at 4-singles to provide the Blues with their first lead of the afternoon.

Whitworth squared things up with a win at No. 6, but Pak won at No. 5 to pull the Blues to within a point of the match victory.

That final point came from senior Hanna Greenberg in the last regular season match of her career. Greenberg made quick work of the Pirates' Jenny Adams, taking a 6-2, 6-3 win at No. 3.

Though the match outcome was then determined, Whitman's Lori Sheng was still on the courts battling Emma-Jo Wiley at the 2-singles spot.

Sheng opened their match with a 6-2 win, only to have Wiley bounce back in the second with a 7-5 win to bring on a third set super-tiebreak.

Wiley rolled out to a 6-0 lead in the tiebreaker, but this time it was Sheng who bounced back, winning 10 of the next 12 points to win the tiebreak, 10-8.

"This was a gritty performance from our whole team, especially our first-years," said head coach John Hein of Redkina and Pak who teamed up for three of his team's six points.

"Everyone did a phenomenal job staying focused and confident after going down in doubles," to a Whitworth team that is still in the running for a postseason NWC tournament berth.

Whitman will play the No. 3 seed, likely Lewis & Clark College, in a Saturday semifinal match while host and top seed Linfield College takes on the No. 4 seed.

The semifinal winners advance to Sunday's NWC championship final at Linfield in McMinnville, Oregon.