AZUSA, Calif.— The Colorado Mesa University women's tennis team dropped a 7-0 decision to the nation's 19^th-ranked Azusa Pacific University Cougars on Saturday afternoon here at APU's Munson and Bavougian Tennis Complex.

The Cougars, who had three regionally-ranked and one nationally-ranked players in their singles lineup, improved to 9-6 with the win while the Mavericks fell to 6-9.

APU swept the three doubles matches and then won all six of the singles affairs, although two of those went to third-set match tie-breakers.

Maverick freshmen Makenna Livingston and Macy Richards each won the second sets of their respective No. 2 and 5 singles matches.  Livingston, who was ranked 14^th in the NCAA Division II West Region, was playing April Wong, ranked 18^th in the region after the fall season.  Wong won the match tie-breaker, 10-4 after the two had split 6-4 decisions in the opening two sets.

Richards fell to Katherine Nguyen in the first set tie-breaker, 7-2, but then came back for a 7-5 win in the second set.  Nguyen then won the match tie-breaker, 10-7.

APU's Eleonora Liga, ranked first in the region and third nationally, won her No. 1 singles match over Issy Coman, 6-1, 6-1.

The Mavericks will now head to Fresno to play three more matches in as many days.  They face Holy Names in a neutral-site encounter on Sunday before facing host Fresno Pacific University on Monday.  They will then wrap up the trip on Tuesday against Dominican University of California in another neutral-site match-up.