WHEELING, W.Va. – The West Liberty University women's tennis team had no trouble maintaining its perfect Mountain East Conference record on Tuesday, coasting to a 7-0 shutout of Fairmont State on the indoor courts at Wheeling Park.
    Coach Heather Gallagher's Hilltoppers (7-3, 3-0) jumped on the Falcons (4-4, 0-1) from the opening serve, earning the doubles point with ease in a 3-0 sweep. Emma Arnal and Evelina Martirosyan took a 6-3 decision at No. 1 doubles while the No. 2 tandem of Gemma Cliffe and Daria Shchoma and the No. 3 doubles pair of Nathalia Valencia and Jacqueline Pena-Aceves each posted 6-1 victories.
    The Black and Gold swept all six singles matches, as well. Cliffe had to bounce back after dropping the opening set of her No. 3 singles match by a 6-1 count but proved more than equal to the task, taking the final two sets by scores of 6-3 and 6-4.
    The first set of Arnal's match at No. 1 singles went into a tiebreaker but the Hilltopper freshman survived the challenge, eking out an 8-6 win in the tiebreaker and completing the straight-set win with a 6-3 nod in the second set.
    The Black and Gold step out of conference play on Saturday with a noon match at Indiana (Pa.) University.
  Arnal/Martirosyan (WLU) d. Pastor/McKnight, 6-3
Cliffe/Shchoma (WLU) d. Sorton/Sevilla, 6-1
Valencia/Pena-Aceves (WLU) d. Nguyen/Tacchi, 6-1 Arnal (WLU) d. Pastor, 7-6(6) 6-3
Martirosyan (WLU) d. Sevilla, 6-0 6-2
Cliffe (WLU) d. McKnight, 1-6 6-3 6-4
Valencia (WLU) d. Tacchi, 6-2 6-3
Pena-Aceves (WLU) d. Nguyen, 6-2 6-1
Shchoma (WLU) d. Sprout, 6-1 6-0