By DONNY NADEAU
Saint Mary's Sports Information Director
 
DULUTH, Minn. — The final score may have read 6-3, but the Saint Mary's University of Minnesota women's tennis team's nonconference matchup against St. Scholastica was much closer than that final score indicates.
 
All three doubles matches were decided by 8-6 scores, while three of the six singles matches went to a third set.
 
Unfortunately for the Cardinals, when the dust settled, it was the Saints who came away with the 6-3 win at Arrowhead Tennis Center.
 
St. Scholastica grabbed a 2-1 lead over the Cardinals after the three doubles matches, winning at No. 2 and No. 3, while Saint Mary's No. 1 team of Laura Sonday (West St. Paul, Minn.) and Colleen Lois (Green Bay, Wis.) teamed for an 8-6 victory.
 
Sonday completed a perfect day at No. 1 with a 6-1, 6-1 win at No. 1 singles, while Cassandra Barr (Eau Claire, Wis.) outlasted CSS's Elise Hauer 6-2, 4-6, 10-8 at No. 2.
 
Lois and Julia Boeve (St. James, Minn.) also went the maximum three sets in their singles matches at No. 3 and No. 4, respectively, but were not able to come away with the victories. Lois won the first set 6-3, but lost the second 7-5 and the third 12-10. Boeve, meanwhile, also opened with a first-set win—7-6 (4), but suffered the same fate as Lois, falling 6-3, 10-3.
 
The Cardinals (1-2 overall) are back in action Saturday night, returning to Arrowhead Tennis Center for a 5 p.m. nonconference match against NCAA Division II UM-Duluth.