THE RUNDOWN
WACO, Texas. – In a Top 25 battle, the No. 22 Baylor women's tennis team came up short vs. No. 20 Central Florida, and dropped the match 4-3, Tuesday at the Hurd Tennis Center.
 
Baylor took the doubles points before UCF knotted the score at three and the match came down to the No. 5 court where Baylor's Angie Shakhraichuk and UCF's Nandini Sharma were locked in a three-set battle. Moving on to the tiebreaker after a 6-6 tie, Sharma rattled off four-straight points before Shakhraichuk stormed back to score six in a row. However, Sharma scored the final four points to seal the victory.
 
HIGHLIGHTS
• Baylor took the doubles point, and that was highlighted by Mel Krywoj & Alicia Herrero Linana teaming up to beat No. 47-ranked Valeriya Zeleva & Ksenia Kuznetsova, 6-4.
• Alicia Herrero Linana won her 10^th career match with a7-5, 6-4 win on court No. 4 over No. 66-ranked Marie Mattel of UCF.

THEY SAID IT
BAYLOR HEAD COACH JOEY SCRIVANO
On the match...
"Tough loss, but really proud of the entire team. They played their hearts out. It wasn't meant to be."
 
On message to the team...
"You have to move on. You can't hold onto that. It was a tough match and we had a lot of positives. We put ourselves in a position to win and sometimes it doesn't work out. We're just going to move on."
 
WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor's match with Washington on the road Saturday was cancelled with no immediate plans for a reschedule. Baylor resumes conference play at K-State, March 20.