LEWISTON, Maine -- Bates College women's tennis has now won consecutive matches for the first time this season as the Bobcats knocked off #37 Wellesley College, 6-3, Saturday in Merrill Gymnasium.

The garnet-and-white secures a 4-5 record with the triumph while the visiting Blue remain winless at 0-4.

Joanna Atwater (Sr.-Short Hills, N.J.) and Ally Friedman (Jr.-East Hampton, N.Y.), Bates' top tandem, contributed to three of the Bobcats' six points with a shared win at No. 1 doubles and individual triumphs in singles play.

The duo opened the day with an 8-4 defeat of Melinda Alviar and Annissa Mu in the top doubles slot. Ava Lyon (So.-Naples, Fla.) and Isabella Saul (Fy.-Brooklyn, N.Y.) also provided a win at No. 3 with their 8-3 besting of Wellesley's Isabella DeAgazio and Jennifer Fan. 

In singles competition, the Bobcats proved victorious at positions one through three. Friedman opened at No. 1 with a three-set win (7-5, 2-6, 6-0) over Mu while Atwater added a straight-set (7-5, 7-5) showing vs. Alviar.

At No. 3, Laura Littlefield (Elicott City, Md.) got into the action as the senior put away DeAgazio by scores of 6-2, 6-0. Drew Williams (So.-Guilford, Conn.) added the Bobcats' sixth-and-final point with a 6-4, 6-2 defeat of Fan at No. 6.

Other scores include:

Doubles
(#2) C. DeAgazio/Pak (Wellesley) def. Kennedy/Littlefield (Bates): 8-5

Singles
(#4) C. DeAgazio (Wellesley) def. D'Aquino (Bates): 2-6, 6-3, 6-4
(#5) Pak (Wellesley) def. Kennedy(Bates): 6-1, 6-1

The Bobcats look to make it three in a row their next time out, which will be Saturday, April 1 when Bates visits #23 Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y.. Start time is set for 10:00 a.m.