Due to Santa Barbara’s extended rainy season, Tuesday’s tennis matches and Wednesday’s baseball games have been postponed.

Westmont men’s and women’s tennis will make up their schedule matches with Vanguard on Monday, April 26. The men will begin at noon with the women starting at two o’clock. Both matches will be played at the Abbott Tennis Courts.

Baseball has moved its doubleheader with Point Loma Nazarene back one day. The two teams will square off on Thursday, April 22 at Russ Carr Field. First pitch is scheduled for 11:00 a.m.

In a match held at Cal State Northridge, Westmont Women’s Tennis (5-12, 4-8 GSAC) earned a 8-1 Golden State Athletic Conference win over the Mustangs of The Master’s College (2-13, 2-11 GSAC).

The Warriors swept the doubles matches to take a 3-0 advantage. At number one, Cassie Strange and Ilissa Mathews defeated Courtney Ringle and Kaitlin Thaxton 8-0. Tara Yekrang and Sarah Louie earned an 8-4 win at number two doubles over Jennifer Baughman and Abigail Zaretsky. On the number three court, Sarah Chhum and Audrey Seversen defeated Erigena Sallaku and Shannon Van Aswgen 8-6.

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Sixth-ranked Azusa Pacific (11-4, 7-4 GSAC) paid a visit to the Abbott Tennis Courts on Tuesday afternoon and left with an 8-1 Golden State Athletic Conference victory over Westmont Women’s Tennis (4-11, 4-7 GSAC).

The Warriors’ Ilissa Mathews and Cassie Strange picked up Westmont’s only win at number one doubles, defeating Sheryl Bon and Sarita Adhikary 8-5. Matthews and Strange bolted out to a 7-2 lead and had two match points before Bon and Adhikary rallied to take three games in a row to make it 7-5. With Strange serving, Bon and Adhikary survived another seven match points before Strange and Matthews wrapped up the match.

In the number two doubles match, Azusa’s Casey Wetzig and Leah Hoffee defeated Tara Yekrang and Sarah Louie 8-4 while on the number three court, Jessalyn Lau and Marie Tanaka swept Sarah Chhum and Audrey Seversen 8-0.

The Cougars had an easy time of it in the bottom two-thirds of the singles lineup. At number three, Severson lost to Emily Ignas 6-0, 6-0 and at number four Wetzig lost to Louie 6-0, 6-2. Tanaka earned a 6-0, 6-0 victory over Chhum at number five and Lau defeated Hanna Day 6-0, 6-0 at number six.

On the number one court, Bon defeated Strange 6-1, 6-1 in a match which lasted much longer than the score would indicate.

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Westmont Women’s Tennis’ four-game trip to the desert came to a strange ending today at the Plaza Racquet Club in Palm Springs. After completing the singles matches against #4 Point Loma Nazarene, the Warriors and Sea Lions began to play their doubles matches. But the host facility decided they needed the courts and asked the two teams to leave before the Golden State Athletic Conference Match could be completed. Point Loma Nazarene (10-1, 7-1 GSAC) was credited with a 6-0 win after sweeping #14 Westmont (3-10, 3-6 GSAC) in singles.

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Cassie Strange returned to the #14 Westmont Women’s Tennis lineup for today’s match against #17 Lewis-Clark State (Idaho), but the Westmont Warriors fell to the Warriors of Lewis-Clark State by a score of 6-3. The two teams faced off at the Rancho Las Palmas Resort in Rancho Mirage

Strange and Ilissa Mathews earned a hard fought win at number one doubles, defeating Megan Smedley and Dorothy Chong 9-8. The Westmont duo won the tiebreaker 7-5. In other doubles action, Lewis-Clark State’s Katharina Marsela and Samantha Teigen defeated Westmont’s Tara Yekrang and Sarah Louie 8-5 on the number two court. At number three, Chelsea Gay and Ciara Schultz earned an 8-2 victory over Westmont’s Hanna Day and Sarah Chhum.

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In a final practice session before heading off on a spring break road trip, #14 Westmont Women’s Tennis suffered the loss of their number one singles player Cassie Strange to an ankle injury. Strange, who normally teams up with Ilissa Mathews at number one doubles, is out for an indefinite period of time. The senior will likely not play in any of the Warriors’ four matches – all against ranked opponents – over the next five days.

The Warriors’ first stop was at the Costa Mesa Tennis Center where #9 Vanguard swept Westmont 9-0. Because of Strange’s absence, the Warriors were forced to forfeit the number six singles and number three doubles matches.

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Westmont Women’s Tennis (3-6) hosted Vassar (N.Y.) (8-1) in a non-conference match on Wednesday at the Abbott Tennis Courts and lost to the NCAA Division III Brewers by a score of 8-1. The Warriors’ only win came at number one doubles where Ilissa Matthews and Cassie Strange earned an 8-4 victory over Nicole Pontee and Joy Backer.

In other doubles action, Jennifer Beckerman, a Santa Barbara High School alumna, and her partner Nicole Block defeated Tara Yekrang and Sarah Louie 8-3 on the number two court. At number three, Natalie Santiago and Alyssa Roush defeated Sarah Chhum and Audrey Severson 8-0.

The Brewers swept singles action which culminated on the number two court where Beckerman defeated Mathews 6-4, 6-4. Pontee earned a 6-0, 6-2 win over Strange, while at number three, Becker defeated Yekrang 6-2, 6-1.

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In an effort to play a match scheduled for this afternoon with Biola before the forecasted heavy rains reached Santa Barbara, #15 Westmont Women’s Tennis (2-4, 2-2 GSAC) moved up its match from a 2:00 p.m. start time to 11:30 a.m. The earlier start time appears to have agreed with the Warriors who defeated the Eagles (1-5, 0-5 GSAC) by an 8-1 score on the Abbott Tennis Courts in a Golden State Athletic Conference match.

The Warriors swept the double matches beginning on the number one court where Cassie Strange and Ilissa Mathews defeated Joelle Tanaka and Samantha Weng 8-1. At number three, Sarah Chhum and Hanna Day claimed an 8-3 victory over Marvelous Beckman and Danielle Calbeck. The number two match was a bit closer, but Tara Yekrang and Sarah Louie prevailed 8-6 over Christine Garner and Kristen Williams.