Elizabeth Erbafina and the Bates women's tennis team fell to No. 8-ranked Bowdoin in Brunswick, Maine, on April 8, 2015. (File photo by Josh Kuckens/Bates College)

BRUNSWICK, Maine -- No. 8 nationally ranked Bowdoin defeated the 40th-ranked Bates women's tennis team 9-0 in a NESCAC match played in Bowdoin's Farley Field House on Wednesday.

The visiting Polar Bears (8-2, 3-0 NESCAC) picked up their fifth straight victory; the host Bobcats (4-8) lost their fifth straight match -- four of them against nationally ranked opponents (Bowdoin, Tufts, Wesleyan, Brandeis).

Bowdoin set the tone for the afternoon by winning all three doubles matches by 8-1 scores, including Joulia Likhanskaia and Tiffany Cheng's victory at No. 1 doubles over Bates' Elena Mandzhukova and Elizabeth Erbafina. Erbafina played the most competitive singles match of the day, falling 6-2, 6-3 at No. 2 to Cheng.

The Bobcats will play at NESCAC rival Connecticut College Saturday at 2pm; Bowdoin plays at Amherst Saturday at 10am.

Bowdoin 9, Bates 0
April 8, 2015 at Lewiston, Maine (Merrill Gymnasium)

Doubles
1. Joulia Likhanskaia/Tiffany Cheng (Bowdoin) def. Elena Mandzhukova/Elizabeth Erbafina (Bates) 8-1
2. Tess Trinka/Kyra Silitch (Bowdoin) def. Kelsey Pearson/Maisie Silverman (Bates) 8-1
3. Emma Chow/Pilar Giffenig (Bowdoin) def. Kate Rosenthal/Emma Blakeley (Bates) 8-1

Singles
1. Likhanskaia (Bowdoin) def. Mandzhukova (Bates) 6-1, 5-0 (ret.)
2. Cheng (Bowdoin) def. Erbafina (Bates) 6-2, 6-3
3. Trinka (Bowdoin) def. Silverman (Bates) 6-2, 6-0
4. Samantha Stalder (Bowdoin) def. Rosenthal (Bates) 6-0, 6-0
5. Giffeng (Bowdoin) def. Olivia Voccola (Bates) 6-0, 6-1
6. Silitch (Bowdoin) def. Blakeley (Bates) 6-0, 6-0