LYNCHBURG, Va. – The Presbyterian College women's tennis team dropped a Big South Conference road match to Liberty on Thursday afternoon, 7-0.

PC moves to 7-10 on the year and 0-4 in the Big South while Liberty improves to 9-7 overall and 6-2 in league play. The Blue Hose stay in Virginia to face Radford on Friday at 2 p.m.

The day's closest match came at the second flight between Caroline deLoach (Columbia, S.C.) and Liberty's Cameron Richard. deLoach took the first set, 6-4, before the Flame won the second set and the tiebreaker, 6-2, 1-0 (10-4).

The Flames clinched the doubles point thanks to a pair of 8-2 wins at the first and third flights. PC put up a battle at the second flight as deLoach and Kayla Stanford (Canton, Ga.) came up short against Jessie Boda and Brittany Yang to a hard-fought 8-7 (7-4) defeat.

In singles play, Ransom fell at No. 1 to Rebekah Jenkins, 6-1, 6-2, while Nicola Wellman pushed past Patricia Alves (Campinas, Brazil), 6-3, 6-3.

At No. 4, Courtney Gardiner (Powder Springs, Ga.) stumbled against Valerie Thong, 6-0, 6-1, and Lindsay Krause (Roswell, Ga.) dropped a fifth-flight match to Brittany Yang, 6-3, 6-1. Stanford fell to Annisha Domenech at the sixth flight, 6-1, 6-0.

Singles competition
1. JENKINS, Rebekah (LIBERTYW) def. RANSOM, Greer (PCW) 6-1, 6-2
2. RICHARD, Cameron (LIBERTYW) def. deLOACH, Caroline (PCW) 4-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-4)
3. WELLMAN, Nicola (LIBERTYW) def. ALVES, Patricia (PCW) 6-3, 6-3
4. THONG, Valerie (LIBERTYW) def. GARDINER, Courtney (PCW) 6-0, 6-1
5. YANG, Brittany (LIBERTYW) def. KRAUSE, Lindsay (PCW) 6-3, 6-1
6. DOMENECH, Annisha (LIBERTYW) def. STANFORD, Kayla (PCW) 6-1, 6-0

Doubles competition
1. JENKINS, Rebekah/WELLMAN, Nicola (LIBERTYW) def. RANSOM, Greer/KRAUSE, Lindsay (PCW) 8-2
2. BODA, Jessie/YANG, Brittany (LIBERTYW) def. STANFORD, Kayla/deLOACH, Caroline (PCW) 8-7 (7-4)
3. RICHARD, Cameron/THONG, Valerie (LIBERTYW) def. GARDINER, Courtney/ELLIOTT, Haley (PCW) 8-2